Individual Quotes - Page 35

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.

Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.

That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals.

One logical consequence of this New Economy composed of big brands and entrepreneurial groups is that the unit of production is no longer a particular, identical product. The unit of production is the creative individual.

The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.

The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn`t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality. and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don`t go on copying others signatures.

All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.