Quotes About Individual

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

success, ultimately, is up to the individual. It isn't the pen—it's the writer; it isn't the road—it's the runner that counts.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

The act of accepting the constraints of society and taking up responsibility was the mark, stated Scout Commander sen'Lora, of a mature and self-directed individual, whatever form that individual might take.

I do not know what a soul is, I think of it as the smallest, the core, civil right.

I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.

But of course this only tries to make a magic out of being black, as if racial self-love and solidarity were the same thing as individual will and character—as if "black pride" could do the individual's hard work of developing into a person who can compete successfully in the modern world.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Human successes like human failures are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.

I've learned that if you can't get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that's where you can truly make an immediate difference.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

We all have our own separate destinies to live out

By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be used as a central tool of morality.

there are naturally large individual differences in the chemical makeup of people's saliva.

Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely.

Smith's genius as an individual, but I have one great advantage over him – I can read his book.

The common analogy for what Williams was describing is a lottery. Breeding asexually is like having lots of lottery tickets all with the same number. To stand a chance of winning the lottery, you need lots of different tickets. Therefore, sex is useful to the individual rather than the species when the offspring are likely to face changed or unusual conditions.

Friedrich Hayek argued, knowledge is dispersed throughout society, because each person has a special perspective. Knowledge can never be gathered together in one place. It is collective, not individual.

The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of selfish and individual goals. Disagreements then become a battle between conflicting interests, rather than a search for a mutually satisfying resolution.