Individual Quotes - Page 4

• I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

  Gertrude Diamant

  Race, Weather, Gold

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• We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Thinking, Prejudice, Change Yourself

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• When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals.

  Eliza Leslie

  Blue, Should Have, Class

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.259

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• There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Average, Important, Littles

  Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”

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• For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Too Late, Fifty, Imagine

  Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”

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• while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

  Iris Origo

  Drama, Passion, Men

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• childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.

  Kate Green

  Country, Taken, People

  Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

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• Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Hero, Soul, Villain

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  Kaz Cooke

  Opportunity, Rights, Feminist

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• The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Flower, Garden, Space

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• The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.

  Marghanita Laski

  Evil, Individuality, Groups

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• the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Lying, Ubiquity, Racism

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.68, Macmillan

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• I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

  Teddy Thompson

  People, Worried, Ifs

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• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  Niger Innis

  Responsibility, Ladders, Facts

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• Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.

  Walt Disney

  Teamwork, Mean, Self

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

  Alvin Toffler

  Shock, Adaptable, Avert

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Network marketing is based purely on relationship selling, which is the state of the art in selling today. Small and large companies throughout the country and the world are realizing that individuals selling to their friends and associates is the future of sales, because the critical element in buying is trust.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, Art, Marketing

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• The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Culture, Shapes

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Mean, Thinking, Community

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• It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

  Hua Ching Ni

  Mind, Energy

  Hua-Ching Ni (1997). “Entering the Tao: Master Ni's Guidance for Self-Cultivation”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

  Herbert Simon

  Selfish, Intelligent, Unintelligent

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1997). “Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason”

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• Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lonely, World, Fame

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• I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

  Megan Fox

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.

  Tom Atlee

  Integrity, Fabric Of Life, Design

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• No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

  Chris Pine

  Matter, Reason

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