Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that's what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

It's my preferred working style to have bipartisan legislation. I think what the Democrats have made clear is that they don't want to deal with anything that repeals and replaces Obamacare. I think they wouldn't want to do anything that gets rid of the mandates, which is a big part of our proposal, getting rid of the individual employer mandates.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

I've got a soft spot for true individuals.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.

I wanted individuals who were clearly themselves and I just got to put some clothes on them, but they basically came "done," you know? How they feel comfortable. I just wanted them to walk down the streets of New York and I said, "You know what? Don't even pose, just walk and we'll take pictures.