Quotes About Individualistic

Their aim was to construct engines of history designed to dissolve human culture, closeness and community. United in an alliance of convenience, these forces see human beings and the troublesome individualistic West, with its stubborn insistence on human rights, on joy, on spontaneity, on quirkiness, acceptance, and tolerance, as obstacles to be managed, drained of power and resources, and sidelined.

I'm not a lady who lunches.

I'm not a person of mentors.

I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5.

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

Many people see the current group of college students, sometimes called "Generation Me",'16 Konrath continues, 'as one of the most self-centred, narcissistic, competitive, confident and individualistic in recent history.

In the POW camps, Australian soldiers shared their rations with a fastidious egalitarianism, and reportedly had a higher survival rate than the class-conscious British and the individualistic Americans.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

I am really not the relationship type.

Spirituality is very individualistic - to each his own. I feel it's about keeping the spirit alive and everything else follows.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

It's more about developing a sense of how he looks at the world. Motivation is highly individualistic. But what we all have in common is that we construct our own identities based on what we've learned of the world.

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

This reactive approach to relationships is inherently individualistic.

I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.