Quotes About Individual

Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture.

Let us not look for the soul of Russia in the Russian novel: let us look for the individual genius. Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame—and not at the faces of other people looking at the frame.

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

Primary prevention requires a shift from a focus on programs to a focus on more far-reaching prevention initiatives and from a focus on the individual to a focus on the environment.

many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change (Institute of Medicine, 2000, p. 4). It is therefore essential for a successful prevention initiative to be comprehensive; it must address the environmental as well as individual

moving our focus in the social and behavioral sciences from risk to resilience and from a concern with individual deficit and pathology

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

aunque cada camino llevase a un sitio distinto, cada ser humano era libre para decidir cuál escoger, para volver atrás o, incluso, para abrir su propio camino.

Building a career—and raising a family—are meaningful activities, but they require a lot of energy. To do our best, we need time we can count on to recharge, apart from these obligations. We need time to do things we find intrinsically energizing for ourselves, as individuals.

there's still info leaking from the Vampire Nation at a pretty high level and not just in your territory but in others as well. Which means a powerful individual who'd have access to some pretty sensitive intel from a variety of sources. That's not a good thing." If Theo hadn't figured it out yet, he soon would and then there'd be hell to pay. "We need to figure out who it is so when The First wants blood, we can toss them his way.

one individual they did not want to encounter at that moment.

Siyasî hürriyet dedikleri ferdin devlete ve kanunlara teslimiyetinden ibaret.

If every individual be bound to society, society is equally bound to him, by a contract which from its nature equally binds both parties. This obligation, which descends from the throne to the cottage, and equally binds the highest and lowest of mankind, signifies nothing more than that it is the interest of all, that conventions, which are useful to the greatest number, should be punctually observed. The violation of this compact by any individual is an introduction to anarchy.

an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Americans believe their ideas are universal—the supremacy of the individual and free, unfettered expression. But they are not. Never were . . .

As is often the case, an individual who has been racially oppressed may be blind that the same mechanisms of exclusion and denigration are at work in gender oppression.

Ours was a typical grief, and yet I say it without believing it. When death becomes personal, then there is nothing typical about it.

While there may be no "I" in team, there is a "me".

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again.

The mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card.