Individual Quotes · Page 400

Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that…

— Karl Rove

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The…

— Earl Nightingale

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

— Albert Einstein

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating…

— George Lucas

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

— Theodor Adorno

O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted…

— Robin Winks

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

— Alfred North Whitehead

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label…

— Ron Paul

[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)…

— Anthony Giddens

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war.…

— Robert McNamara

Truth does not belong to an individual.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot…

— Carl Eckart

All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling…

— Edward Snowden

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

— Dalai Lama

Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical…

— Giorgio de Chirico

As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The…

— Wendy McElroy

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on…

— Anita Hill

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

— Millicent Carey McIntosh

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not…

— Marvin Sapp

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question…

— John Bates Clark

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies…

— Renee Fleming

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him,…

— Frank O'Connor

Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.

— Richard Koch