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Quotes About Individual

Never give advice in a crowd.
~ Pope Paul VI
One must listen to them carefully to understand that while pain is universal, it is also utterly private. We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual. In this country, for example, someone fleeing for his life will think he should call for the police. This is a reasonable way to cope with the threat of pain. But in my country, no one calls for the police, since it is often the police who inflict the pain.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
while pain is universal, it is also utterly private.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Rather than choosing an individual because of any foreseen faith, the elect individual receives faith precisely because God has chosen him.
~ Unknown
election is "arbitrary," since God indeed rules "by absolute authority," and election is indeed based on his "individual discretion.
~ Unknown
It is a false doctrine to suggest that God provides the mere possibility of salvation, and that it is up to each individual to actualize it when he believes the gospel by his own free will.
~ Unknown
we need to emphasize doctrinal teaching in the church, in the family, and in our individual lives. We should emphasize not subjective experience or emotionalism, but depth and scope in our understanding of Scripture.
~ Unknown
We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work toward his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to help those to whom we feel we can be most useful.
~ Unknown
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.
~ Virginia Woolf
The collective body functions in the same way as the individual body: if the system is over-anxious, it spontaneously gives rise to self-destructive patterns.
~ Virginie Despentes
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
~ Vladimir Putin
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.
~ W. Clement Stone
On idea of merit rating) Everyone propels himself forward or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system. Don't rock the boat.
~ W. Edwards Deming
There is some Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought.
~ W.B. Yeats
People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.
~ W.H. Auden
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
~ Scott McCloud
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
~ Earl Warren
One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.
~ Laura Poitras
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.
~ Unknown
The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.
~ James Freeman Clarke
I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.
~ Gary Reilly
Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.
~ Ginni Rometty