Quotes About Individuals

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

Being in a group reveals who individuals are just as much, if not more, than being in a group alters who they are. In this way, groups can reflect some of the baser characteristics of the individuals within them as well as some of the more noble.

What does it mean when individuals can no longer be embarrassed or shamed?

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

Among the many reasons for which whites are in positions of power—better education, more experience, greater numbers, past exclusionary practices—white racial solidarity today plays practically no role. Whites are forbidden to think in terms of racial identity unless it is to think of ways to promote the interests of other races. When whites act in their own interests, they are to act strictly as individuals rather than as conscious members of a racial group.

Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time.

Steve Jobs frequently said, "Apple is an Ellis Island kind of company built on refugees from other companies. These are the extremely bright individual contributors who were troublemakers at other companies.

I've come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

many alexithymic individuals do display a capacity for sophisticated controlled imagining, consciously using imagination for practical means such as how to work out a problem or construct a useful idea or object. This ability suggests that spontaneous imagining is the specific deficit in question.

the larger the staff, the more important it becomes to make sure responsibility is owned by individuals and not by the group.

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down)

The businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own medium.

The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

L'inquinamento ambientale è solo un riflesso esteriore di quello psichico che avviene al tuo interno: quello di milioni di individui inconsapevoli che non si assumono la responsabilità del loro spazio interiore.

Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself.