Quotes About Individuals

Much like the deaf community, we autistics are building an emergent culture. We individuals, with our cultures of one, are building a culture of many.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then.

The strength of a country derives from the educational levels of the individuals in that nation.

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Exist? în istoria oamenilor revolu?ii private are nu sunt cu nimic mai prejos, în ceea ce prive?te profunzimea ?i r?sturn?rile pe care le antreneaz?, decât revolu?iile publice.

El enfoque económico es el del «individualismo metodológico», según el cual los fenómenos colectivos son resultado de comportamientos individuales y, a su vez, afectan a estos últimos.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The criteria by which individuals are deemed qualified or unqualified to become professionals involve not just technical knowledge as is generally assumed, but also attitude—in particular, attitude toward working within an assigned political and ideological framework.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;

They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and nationality, who were thoroughly miserable.' 'So you believe in taking the chance?' 'Certainly. What is life without some risk?

I like people who live in the world of data, even if they're sometimes a little, um, unusual.

Colourblind racism asserts that there are no real problems with racism in our society, that challenges stem from individuals rather than our institutions and collective thinking and behavior.

Colourblind racism has also been labelled 'laissez faire racism' because it is based on the myth of individuals with equal starting points competing in a free market, thus chiming with neoliberal economic nostrums. Indeed, it has been argued by Randolph Hohle

Assim, quando coloca a Terra no centro do mapa, ou, mais especificamente, num ponto particular da Terra, o astrólogo está seguindo a lógica de que onde quer que existamos como indivíduos, o nosso xentro e o nosso foco estão no grande esquema das coisas.

there are two types of people in the world-those who matter to his story and those who don't.

my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.