Individuality Quotes - Page 26

• Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

  Price Pritchett

  Excellence, Ethics, Ethical

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• You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.

  Price Pritchett

  Giving Up, Exercise, Ethics

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• Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

  Piet Mondrian

  Life, Art, Giving

  "The new art - the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian".

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• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Life, War, Sea

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325

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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

  Ralph Nader

  Men, Fellow Man, Allegiance

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• However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Talent, Social, Born

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• An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Want, Formulas

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• Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ignorance, Negativity, Ignorant

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  Will Durant

  Real, Character, Mind

  "The Lessons of History". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968.

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• It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

  Dian Fossey

  Encounters, Apes, Firsts

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.

  James A. Champy

  Creativity, Ideas, People

  "Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership". Book by James A. Champy, 1995.

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• There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Independence, Weakness

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.186, Open Road Media

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• Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

  Edwin Land

  Mind, Originality, Attributes

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Boys, Air, Inward

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• There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Creative, Doe

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• Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Break Through, Practice

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• None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Judging

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Mulson Chapone, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1785). “The Rambler”, p.292

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• There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Soul, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.287

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• Be daring. Be first. Be different.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Different, Firsts

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• Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

  Rajneesh

  Missing, Imitator

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• An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.

  Diana Athill

  Sex, Men, Interesting

  Diana Athill (2009). “Somewhere Towards The End”, p.31, Granta Books

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• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Hate, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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