Individuality Quotes - Page 31

• But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Average, Brain

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, Penguin

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• There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Brother, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

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• It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980”, p.351, Penguin UK

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• Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Interesting, Personality, Mind

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• We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Animal, Together, Monkeys

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• Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

  Sue Grafton

  Independence, Cooperation, Conformity

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Roots, Mind, Habit

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• Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

  Joan Bennett Kennedy

  Thinking, Careers, Achievement

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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, Groups, Doe

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  You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Special, Different, Remember

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

  Gertrude Atherton

  California, People, Huffy

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• Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.

  James Vila Blake

  Thinking, Looks, Facts

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• The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Creativity, Males

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

  Masiela Lusha

  Family, Leadership, Education

  Tolucan Times, October 27, 2010.

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• What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

  African Spir

  Men, Use, Limits

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 49), 1937.

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• The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.

  African Spir

  Character, Independent, Successful

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.

  Thakoon Panichgul

  Fashion, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Teacher, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I love the individuality I see in our community.

  Kit Williamson

  People, Interesting, Community

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.

  Wafa Sultan

  Rights, Islam, Criticism

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!

  Hiromi

  Moving, Heart, Artist

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• As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.

  Toni Collette

  Kids, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Be yourself, no matter what they say.

  Sting

  Being Yourself, Style, Matter

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lying, Humanity, Special

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• Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

  David Bohm

  Awareness, Ifs, Wholeness

  David Bohm's dialogue with Renee Weber, first published in the journal ReVision (1983), later published in Renee Weber "Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (p. 30), 1986.

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