Individuality Quotes - Page 12

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I think there’s something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think we’re in a generation where we’re accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think that’s the most important part.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.