Individual Quotes

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.

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.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

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.