Quotes About Individuality

The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.

Some can do things others cannot," Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.

And I will not allow you to think that you make my decisions, or made them. I am myself, not an appendage to you. Now go away. I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true. I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident." Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table. "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out.

No one was ever simply anything

A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.

Men who tried to stand on their forebears' shoulders rather than their own feet often found themselves shorter by a head.

it seemed to him that he felt one pair of eyes in particular, someone staring not at Moiraine and Loial, but at him. He picked her out immediately. For one thing, she stood apart from the others, and for another she was the only woman in the room not wearing at least a little lace. Her dark gray, almost black, dress was as plain as the ship captains' clothes, with wide sleeves and narrow skirts, and never a frill or stitch of fancy-work.

The man should have grown a beard to hide that narrow jaw. It made his head look like a forester's splitting wedge.

You cannot please everyone

You cannot soothe everyone.

A drum with no head," Easar said softly, flicking his horse's reins. "A pump with no grip. A song with no voice. Still it is mine. Still it is mine.

His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.

I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

Da la impresión de que todas las personas quieren tener su propio "territorio", sus "reglas", su "forma de hacer las cosas" y, en especial, su "propia opinión". Si cooperáramos más y compitiéramos menos internamente, todos ganarían más dinero.

Two people were not one

He was a modernizer, in other words, who never forgot the importance of the individual people behind the machines. His

He taught me early in life to take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done.

take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outwards from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

it, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.