Individual Quotes - Page 45

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

We must reset our sails to take advantage of these changing winds and prosper as a business and individual. You can make the most of this downturn and position yourself for the next boom that's going to follow.

Every individual has the potential to be original.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.