Individual Quotes · Page 79

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

— Angela Davis

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

— William Thomas Stead

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

— Swami Muktananda

Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

— Clarence Benjamin Jones

How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

— Rulon Gardner

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

— Paulo Coelho

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives,…

— Roger Goodell

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the…

— Eric Hoffer

If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you…

— James Parton

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical…

— Jacob Hacker

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial…

— Anonymous

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an…

— Peter Drucker

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't…

— Charles R. Swindoll

The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the…

— Kurt Lewin

Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a…

— Robert Graves

More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is…

— Matthew Kelly

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real…

— Herbert Read

Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing…

— Francis Crick

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive…

— L. Neil Smith

More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice…

— Donald Miller

[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens…

— Austen Chamberlain

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

— Simon McBurney

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

— Cathy Ladman

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and…

— Paul Greengrass

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

— Soren Kierkegaard

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

— William Ernest Hocking

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

— Stephen Gostkowski

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

— Tom Peters

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

— John Steinbeck

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say,…

— Robert Henri

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

— Stanislav Grof

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along…

— Julia Child

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

— Aldous Huxley