Individual Quotes

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.