Top 100 Quotes About Individuals
#1. It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
Clement Freud
#2. Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
Susan Sontag
#3. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.
Walter Lippmann
#4. It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.
Robert Darnton
#5. Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.
Dick Powell
#6. The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.
Kevin Mitnick
#7. Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
Bertrand Russell
#8. Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.
Jerry I. Porras
#9. Prejudice and bigotry are brought down ... by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
Condoleezza Rice
#10. More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.
Asha-Rose Migiro
#11. Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment.
Virginia Postrel
#12. An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
Anthony Trollope
#13. And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
Willard Libby
#14. In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
Terry Eagleton
#15. I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.
Milton Friedman
#16. A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
Frans Lanting
#17. Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.
Robert M. Pirsig
#18. I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.
Andy Stanley
#19. The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.
James Bovard
#20. I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
Philip Larkin
#21. God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army ... God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude ... He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.
John Wimber
#22. Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
C.S. Lewis
#23. All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.
Criss Jami
#24. When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#25. Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.
John Dewey
#26. Weak and overwhelmed individuals respond to others' success by attacking it.
Grant Cardone
#27. God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.
Charles R. Swindoll
#28. Compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral, and more apt to form stereotypical views of outsiders.
Richard Wiseman
#29. There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
Peter Singer
#30. The whole art of living is to make use of the individuals through whom we suffer.
Alain De Botton
#31. All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
Bertrand Russell
#32. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? In
Bertrand Russell
#33. While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
Dan Ariely
#34. The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.
Orson Scott Card
#35. Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.
Tim Lebbon
#36. It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.
Kenny Smith
#37. We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
Ben Carson
#38. All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations ... work together.)
Suzanne Yoculan
#39. Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly "soft" aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.
Daniel H. Pink
#40. By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.
Tamara L. Chilver
#41. As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
Mandy Moore
#42. As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Helen Dunmore
#43. Positive psychology is the study of what constitutes excellence in individuals, communities, and workplaces. It incorporates the study of productivity, resilience, motivation, emotions, strengths, team dynamics, and more.
Margaret Greenberg
#44. Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be failure but of succeeding at things that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
#45. Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.
David Souter
#46. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
#47. Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. On paper, actors are the dumbest group of individuals essentially out there. Most of us have not gone to college. However, we never stop learning. Because of what we do, we're constantly researching, constantly learning.
Mike Vogel
#49. Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.
Steve Stoute
#50. We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
Maynard James Keenan
#51. Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Beatrice Webb
#52. Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
Aldous Huxley
#54. [Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations ...
Stephen L. Richards
#55. For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.
Gordon Brown
#56. For our international projects we developed an online skilled volunteer job board to help connect skilled individuals around the world who can help with the projects. This is the cost effective channel to achieve a wider reach, which you wouldn't have been possible without technology.
David Batstone
#57. Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.
James Surowiecki
#58. I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant
Curtis Sittenfeld
#59. Oh, they may be tough individuals, but it takes more than personal toughness to be good leaders. The methods and goals have to contribute to the toughness.
Chris Kyle
#60. We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.
Peter Eigen
#61. Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.
The Arbinger Institute
#62. We are the universe pretending to be individuals.
Deepak Chopra
#63. The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true "peace message" that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55)
David R. Smock
#64. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
Guy Ritchie
#65. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.
Ted Chiang
#66. Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.
Paul Martin
#67. I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.
Charlie Trotter
#68. The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
Scott Peters
#69. Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
Bill Courtney
#70. Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them ... if only to reach but a few.
James D. Maxon
#71. Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.
Simon Sinek
#72. Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your "team" of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success.
Zig Ziglar
#73. Too many people today want a brotherly world
in which they can remain unbrotherly; a decent world in which they can live indecently. Too many individuals want economic security without spiritual security.
Billy Graham
#74. In any group of women who are all equally good-looking, the number of messages they get is highly correlated to the variance: from the pageant queens to the most homely women to the people right in between, the individuals who get the most affection will be the polarizing ones.
Christian Rudder
#75. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.
Timothy Snyder
#76. There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.
Chad Hurley
#77. In some stages in life, some individuals decide only to chose every hard option to achieve. His/her life turns onto confluence of challenges influenced only by destiny ... in which only few decide to accept because it is a matter of existence to them.
Sameh Elsayed
#78. By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.
Chris Chocola
#79. Such individuals lead vigorous lives, are open to a variety of experiences, keep on learning until the day they die, and have strong ties and commitments to other people and to the environment in which they live. They enjoy whatever they do, even if tedious or difficult; they are hardly ever bored,
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#80. There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet.
Noah Webster
#81. The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#83. New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.
Don Peppers
#84. Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.
Richard Koch
#85. A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.
Meredith Belbin
#86. Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.
Liberace
#87. Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.
Ted Danson
#88. It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.
Herbert Hoover
#89. The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals - recognize well enough to name - the more alienated we have come to feel from ourselves, the Earth and God, the Source.
Linda Bender
#90. As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.
David Blunkett
#91. The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
William Blake
#92. Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?
Adele Devine
#94. Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
Franz Von Papen
#95. We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
#96. The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#97. The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort.
Mark Hall
#98. Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
Craig Venter
#99. My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
John Cassavetes
#100. Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.
Amy Dickinson
