Quotes About Individual

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

Death is the thing that differentiates art and life. Art is identical with the idea of permanence. It is a continuity and not an individual spasm. Life is the idea of the person.

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

emphasize quite strongly the responsibility of all individual Christians to think carefully about issues of faith for ourselves,

What it means is that individual effort, individual discernment, individual choice can have huge effects in averting the catastrophes that might otherwise sweep through a herd.

corruption is a symptom of a deeper ill, the disregard for the value of the individual by comparison with the perceived requirements of the state. An attack on corruption that does not address this underlying subservience risks removing one group of corrupt leaders and replacing them with another group that is just as bad.

In a competitive market environment, as an individual investor, you could study the global economy, your local economy, or any single company to death and still come to the wrong investment conclusions, as do many professionals. Ask

In a domain like oncology, two things are continually changing: conventional treatments and our knowledge of what each of us can do individually to reinforce the effect of these treatments. If the circumstances change, the survival curve changes too.

What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

Do you accept reality, or shall the narcissistic individual have the absolute right to live in their own permanent fantasy world, and compel everyone else to go along with their fantasy? When the lunatic in a mental asylum says he is Napoleon, we must bellow, 'Vive l'Empereur!' and join his Grande Armée, and all march to Waterloo to meet our fate.

The collective unconscious is the collective mind of the universe and is related to every individual mind. The interface of the collective unconscious and consciousness is the personal unconscious, populated by complexes. The personal unconscious is the liminal zone between individual consciousness and the collective unconscious, between man and God.

Because the rituals of the larger culture play a formative role in fashioning our affections, it must be recognized that idolatry is not merely an individual sin but is embedded in the very patterns of civilizations where they take on a systemic character.

Research confirms what we intuitively know: aligned, innovative, and integrated HR practices make a dramatic difference in individual and organizational performance.

Help is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our individual endeavors, as if we cannot face how much we need in order to go on.

To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world.

Underpinning many individual claims to want equality of outcome in society is a motive to elevate ones own morality above others, therefore making a mockery of both equality and morality.

Stop outsourcing your morality to governments

religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.

My father had once famously stated in Parliament that religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.

Change begins with ourselves.