Quotes About Individual

Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities.

even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience. On the other hand, surprising individual cases have a powerful impact and are a more effective tool for teaching psychology because the incongruity must be resolved and embedded in a causal story.

As we noted in chapter 12, our normal way of thinking is causal. We naturally attend to the particular, following and creating causally coherent stories about individual cases, in which failures are often attributed to errors, and errors to biases. The ease with which bad judgments can be explained leaves no space for noise in our accounts of errors.

The explanation is a simple availability bias: both spouses remember their own individual efforts and contributions much more clearly than those of the other, and the difference in availability leads to a difference in judged frequency. The

Signore e signori, che cos'è la morte? In realtà non solo l'estinzione dell'individuo o gli attimi del trapasso, ma già il lungo declino che la precede, quel rilassamento che si dilata negli anni; il periodo in cui un uomo c'è ancora, ma allo stesso tempo non c'è più e in cui, anche se la sua statura è ormai andata a farsi benedire, può ancora dare a intendere di esistere. Signore e signori, è questo il modo sopraffino con cui la natura ha regolato la nostra morte!

The idea that life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

the fundamental needs of a vibrant economy and the fundamental needs of a happy individual are not necessarily the same.

Treason is a criminal act committed by an individual, not a political body and, therefore, cannot be committed by a State.

Statisticamente tutto si spiega, personalmente tutto si complica.

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

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

Ride hailing does not necessarily mean few total miles driven. On the contrary, it can well mean increased mileage driven, as the accessibility and convenience stimulate more usage of vehicles—fewer people taking the bus or the subway and more people in individual cars, albeit driven by someone else.

There is no evidence of spontaneous remission or integration of personality alters without mental health treatment. Therapy is long-term and requires the establishment of a strong therapeutic relationship with the individual.

My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word he uses. Excretion.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

long before the eons of time began, God came across your name! Then He formulated a perfect plan just for you that is unlike any other plan for any other person who has ever been born.

manifestaciones fenoménicas conscientes del modo de activación primal de la amenaza es la intrusión frecuente y repetida en la conciencia de pensamientos e imágenes automáticos relacionados con las preocupaciones de miedo específicas del individuo. De

She realized that the world was a dance of a million fates. In this dance she was but a single soul.

Por um grupo todo de líderes, com responsabilidades diferentes – observou a diretora, pensativa. – O chefe continua exercendo seus deveres e responsabilidades específicas, assim como as outras pessoas da equipe. Mas o que estou entendendo é que, em um grupo de líderes, todos assumem a responsabilidade individual pelo sucesso do conjunto, influenciando e inspirando os outros a cumprirem seus deveres da melhor maneira possível.

structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.

The "Extranational" Age Ahead As the era of the "Sovereign Individual" takes shape, many of the ablest people will cease to think of themselves as party to a nation, as "British" or "American" or "Canadian."' A new "transnational" or "extranational" understanding of the world and a new way of identifying one's place in it await discovery in the new millennium.

in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth, but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.