The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call… — William James Copy Share Image
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or… — Plato Copy Share Image
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is… — Mike Hebert Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual… — John Mott Copy Share Image
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do… — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
My main intention is to inspire people. [Let] kids know that you experience things and it's okay to voice them and express… — Sarah Hudson Copy Share Image
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress,… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western… — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image