Individual Quotes - Page 11

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

Be that self which one truly is.

I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But my group is liberal. Not only that, they say, 'If you're not liberal and not a Democrat, you're not black. If you're conservative, you're a sellout.' Here, then, I'm living with that kind of a pressure against my individuality.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.