Individual Quotes

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

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.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.