Individual Quotes
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The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
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You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.
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A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.
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Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
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Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.
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Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.
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Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.
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A stakeholder in an organization is (by definition) any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objectives.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.
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The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends.
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If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
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Believe that you can even as a single individual, you can change the world.
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We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even the young man over the gang for success because it's a system that's broken, not just the actions of the individual.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.
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No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.
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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Superficially, that would suggest that conservatives take a more understanding and indulgent view of individual lapses, while liberals take a more harshly judgmental one. In fact, we know, quite the opposite is the case.
