Quotes About Individual

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.

The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond.

The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.

The competition between the two forces can be succinctly expressed as follows: Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.

To give in completely to the instinctual urgings born from individual selection would be to dissolve society. At the opposite extreme, to surrender to the urgings from group selection would turn us into angelic robots—the outsized equivalents of ants.

When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases the survival and reproduction rate of the group as a whole. In a nutshell, individual selection favors what we call sin and group selection favors virtue. The result is the internal conflict of conscience that afflicts all but psychopaths, estimated fortunately to make up only 1 to 4 percent of the population.

Natural selection, the driving force of biological evolution in both individual and group selection, is captured in a single phrase: mutation proposes, the environment disposes.

Much of culture, including especially the content of the creative arts, has arisen from the inevitable clash of individual selection and group selection.

individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.

Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.

It can't be easy, living in the park." "Maybe it was a greater effort being who he was.

If you tasked a cultural engineering team with designing a substance that would satisfy specs aimed at maximizing individual creativity and group cooperation, they would come up with something very much like alcohol.

Independence existed for individual before liberty was established for all.

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.

Any system itself is nothing since your mentality and behaviour is that system, which reflects on society.

Naturally, water becomes coloured in whatever colour; it depends on an individual what colour it wants that; similarly, life is also as water.

The truth also displays as a coin, first side as individual interests, and second as collective interests, which realistically describe and demonstrate humanity.

It will be implied that this goal is "normal", but it may really be the goal of being like them or like the majority of people, ignoring differences in temperament. A good cognitive-behavioral therapist, however, will be attuned to individual differences...

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.

The drive to change one's state must face countless obstacles. One can act on genetic conditioning but not ignore it. Belonging to one class or another can be camouflaged but not canceled out. The individual is in the end only a battlefield, in which privileges and disadvantages war fiercely. What counts in the end is the collective flow of generations. Even when there is both merit and luck, the efforts of a single individual are unsatisfying.