Quotes About Individual

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual.

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

No one can blame his defeat in a holy war on another person, priest, group or religion. Each man's holy war is his own.

Individual transformation is the more popular conversation, and the choice not to focus on it [in this book] is because we have already learned that the transformation of large numbers of individuals does not result in the transformation of communities. If we continue to invest in individuals as the primary target of change, we will spend our primary energy on this and never fully invest in communities. In this way, individual transformation comes at the cost of community.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

In attachment theory, the regulation of affects serves to foster the emergence of self-regulation from coregulation. Or, put into the alternative language that Sroufe uses, this means that the regulatory system of the infant is transformed from being "dyadic" to being "individual.

Man is a solitary animal condemned to live in herds.

Kõik algab ja lõpeb inimesega, kes katuselt alla kukub. Kuid vahepeal on nüüd terve rida seoseid, milles võibolla iialgi selgust ei saa.

A composer is not a note in his symphony, but if you have the capacity to hear the symphony and not just individual notes, the symphony bears testimony to the composer and gives meaning to each note. If you specialize in a note, you may never hear the symphony.

Our religion, such as it is, has abandoned the only territory where it could not be challenged, the saving of souls, and has given up troubling our individual consciences. Instead, it has joined in the nationalization of the human conscience, so that a man's moral worth is now measured by the level of taxation he is willing to support, rather than by his faith or even his good works.

tolerancia fomenta la ética individual, y no confía en el compromiso. No es casualidad que el Nuevo Testamento piense que la relación entre Cristo y la iglesia es análoga a la que existe entre el marido y la mujer; o de que hoy día la gente se muestre reacia a entrar en el acto matrimonial.

None of this is ever going to change until each of us changes. The change has to come from us, and the object of that change is us. We have to change our hearts. And we have to change our minds. We have to stop thinking in terms of stereotypes and deal with people as people. We have to stop thinking in terms of narrow self-interest and begin to reclaim the idea of the common good.

Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.