Quotes About Individuals

I've met every freak in the business.

There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

Well actually the beauty of my work is after doing over 1,000 readings bringing through non-celebrities, celebrities as a soul everybody fundamentally comes through the same way.

I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself.

Momentous events, the stuff of a nation's history, were sometimes dependent on individuals commonly thought the least likely to set them in motion.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.

People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.   —FROM THE TLEILAXU GODBUK

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative. As

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative.

Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly mass effect. The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals

Cada civilización depende de la calidad de los individuos que produce.

Conduc?torul trebuie s? menÈ›in? nivelul indivizilor. Prea puÈ›ini indivizi... È™i un popor degenereaz? în gloat?.

He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob." His

Oricare ar fi gradul de exotism atins de civilizaÈ›ie, oricare ar fi dezvolt?rile existenÈ›ei È™i ale societ??ii sau complexitatea interfeÈ›ei om/maÈ™in?, exist? interludii de putere solitar?, în cursul c?rora evoluÈ›ia omenirii È™i viitorul ei depind de acÈ›iunile relativ simple ale anumitor indivizi.

Toate guvernele sunt confruntate cu o problem? cronic?: puterea exercit? o mare atracÈ›ie asupra naturilor patologice. Nu atât c? puterea corupe, dar ea îi fascineaz? pe indivizii coruptibili. AceÈ™tia au tendinÈ›a de a se îmb?ta cu violen??, ceea ce creeaz? rapid condiÈ›iile unei obiÈ™nuinÈ›e ireversibile.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people revert to a mob.

Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.