Quotes About Individuals

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.

The truth, however, is very different from this. Certainly there are individuals and larger forces out there that continually have an effect on us, and there is much we cannot control in the world. But generally what causes us to go astray in the first place, what leads to bad decisions and miscalculations, is our deep-rooted irrationality, the extent to which our minds are governed by emotion.

As long as there are humans, the irrational will find its voices and means of spreading. Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress. Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

Los individuos con mucho tiempo en sus manos son extremadamente susceptibles a la seducción.

Daily Law: Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress. Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work. The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress. Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

Rand was ta'veren, one of those rare individuals who, instead of being woven willy-nilly into the Pattern, instead forced the Pattern to shape itself around them.

A DDO represents, instead, a rethinking of the very place of people development in organizational life. What if a company did everything within its power to create the conditions for individuals to overcome their own internal barriers to change, to take stock of and transcend their own blind spots, and to see errors and weaknesses as prime opportunities for personal growth?

He was a modernizer, in other words, who never forgot the importance of the individual people behind the machines. His

My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all.

Praxeology exhibits subjectivism in that it takes actors' subjective ends as they exist in the minds of each person. By refraining from passing judgment on these ends, praxeology itself is objective.

He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.

People say men are interesting. They may be. But I shall never get well enough acquainted with any of them to find out.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

there was a greater likelihood that individuals who committed crimes within the Nazi system would take personal responsibility for their actions, than there was that war criminals who served Stalin or Hirohito would take such responsibility.

OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON THE EXERTIONS OF A FEW PATRIOTIC INDIVIDUALS. IT IS WITH GRIEF THAT WE LEARN THAT THE CONGRESS IS MADE UP OF SO FEW OF THEM. —DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, PHILADELPHIA PHARMACIST

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.