Individual Quotes

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.