Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found I wanted to have more of a voice: to actually say something. I wanted to do something more personal over a long period of time, with more authorship.