Individual Quotes

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

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.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.