Individual Person Quotes

#1. In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Thomas Merton

#2. The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Havelock Ellis

#3. A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Martin Buber

#4. My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

Tim Berners-Lee

#5. Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.

Craig Venter

#6. The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#7. I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books.

Alan Lightman

#8. It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

#9. On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.

Monica Bellucci

#10. One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Rudyard Kipling

#11. The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.

Alva Noe

#12. There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

Joseph Stalin

#13. For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

Matt Mullenweg

#14. The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Max Stirner

#15. from the head honcho to the person who scraped shit from the toilets. He always saw the individual person rather than the job. There were only two types of people that mattered for Tom. Good guys and wanks. That was the only measure he took of anyone.

Mark Wilson

#16. Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

Muhammad Yunus

#17. What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

Albert Hofmann

#18. Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, "Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will?" More basic and more significant is the question, "Where does God lead us as a people?" This

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

Joe Swanberg

#20. History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

#21. I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

Stephen Covey

#22. Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

Jeet Banerjee

#23. The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Andre Gide

#24. The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.

Vishnudevananda Saraswati

#25. The choice is to live a spiritual life; to live a bigger life; to live a life of service to Earth and the whole; it's choosing every day and every hour to live by your true nature at all levels of being rather than live as an individual person only on the material dimension of being.

Ilchi Lee

#26. The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal ... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.

Kim Jong Il

#27. We are all different in every individual person. But from here I ask myself what do they see when I see a car which is red, what colour do they see, do they see also red and is the same colour which I know red for them?

Deyth Banger

#28. Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#29. If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

Pope Francis

#30. Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

Os Guinness

#31. Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

Stuart Chase

#33. I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

George R R Martin

#34. The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

#35. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Sheldon Richman

#36. Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#37. I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

Mother Teresa

#38. We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more - true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.

Linda Tirado

#40. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.

Glenn Schiraldi

#41. The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

George Ohsawa

#42. People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.

Cecelia Ahern

#43. Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Henry Flynt

#44. I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

Zora Neale Hurston

#45. Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift

Sunday Adelaja

#46. A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Boethius

#47. What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Nikki Reed

#48. What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Napoleon Hill

#49. For I bring not a religion ... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.

Corrie Ten Boom

#50. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Brian Tracy

#51. If an individual has a calm state of mind,
that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
even in the presence of great agitation.

Dalai Lama

#52. An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Chaim Potok

#53. When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

Ernst Mach

#54. The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

Emilie Buchwald

#55. Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

Khaled Hosseini

#56. Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

Brian Houston

#57. At a deeper level, each person is the custodian of a completely private, individual world.

John O'Donohue

#58. While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#59. People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

David Greenberg

#60. I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Mother Teresa

#61. The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Albert Schweitzer

#62. I have not found my perspective on my career change. What I have found is that my life in general has been more fulfilling. To be able to influence an individual's life and on who they become as a person is a very rewarding feeling.

Phil Mickelson

#63. Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

David Boreanaz

#64. We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#65. Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#66. Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

#67. The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

Ram Dass

#68. My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

Moshe Feldenkrais

#69. Society tends to always make multiples - whether it's twins or triplets or whatever - one person. And it's not always fair. I encourage multiples to embrace their individual uniqueness because, just as you are an amazing unit together, that can only happen when you are strong individually.

Tia Mowry

#70. There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

J. Paul Getty

#71. What I have a problem with, is this big worldwide synchronization, this big worldwide oneness, where everybody is just like the same person. I couldn't tell you when, was the last time I met an individual.

Chronixx

#72. I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

Frederick Lenz

#73. "Be the change you want to see in the world" ... and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

Mahatma Gandhi

#74. I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

#75. In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

Prentice Mulford

#76. Typically a command and control organization uses a top-down approach in allocating work: it defines a title for an individual, like Sales Manager, and then based on that tries to figure out what kind of tasks the person

Sebastian Klein

#77. Love is individual to each person and I don't think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn't going to be the same for everybody.

Zooey Deschanel

#78. I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

Cate Marvin

#79. I believe spirituality is a very personal and individual experience that varies from one person to the next.

J.R. Rain

#80. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul - the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.

Ayn Rand

#81. Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

Asghar Farhadi

#82. Think about who you are. Think about how nice you can be to another person. By the same token then, to have your own opinion about life, you as an individual, with respect. But I think that's what the key to success is.

Tommy Wiseau

#83. THE MISCONCEPTION: You are more concerned with the validity of information than the person delivering it. THE TRUTH: The status and credentials of an individual greatly influence your perception of that individual's message.

David McRaney

#84. The website is like the person face, it says a lot of about a one individual.

Deyth Banger

#85. Only through work can a person succeed as an individual.

Sunday Adelaja

#86. Organizations know that they cannot wait until the right person with the right traits shows up. Increasingly there is doubt that even charisma and individual competences are enough

Marilyn Jacobson

#87. Simmy entertained slippery thoughts about identity and the meaning of any individual's span on earth. When it came right down to it, she supposed that all a person really amounted to was the sum of their memories.

Rebecca Tope

#88. Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

#89. The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

Rajneesh

#90. It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; ... the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#91. A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal

Sunday Adelaja

#92. There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.

Freeman Patterson

#93. You can't say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person's complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#94. Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.

Sakyong Mipham

#95. True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard F. Libby

#96. There was no point saying that everyone has a different sexual profile, as individual as their fingerprints; no one wanted to believe that. It was very dangerous being uninhibited in bed; there was always the fear that the other person might still be a slave to their preconceived ideas.

Paulo Coelho

#97. In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

Albert Einstein

#98. In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

Siri Hustvedt

#99. Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

Gore Verbinski

#100. When you have a person in your life who effortlessly make you feel like the most magnificent entity in the universe, there is only one other who has the power of making you feel less than nothing. Ironically enough, it is always that very same individual.

Carl Henegan