Individuality Quotes - Page 32

• Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Real, Independent

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• I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together.

  Marcus Miller

  Music, Beautiful, Teamwork

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

  Stan Getz

  Quality, Essentials, Four

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• 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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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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• Observe the masses and do the opposite

  James Caan

  Opposites, Mass

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Acceptance, People

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• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

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• There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

  Lily Cole

  Creativity, Ideas, Clothes

  "Vivienne Westwood vs Lily Cole". Interview with Bertie Brandes, www.dazeddigital.com. December 16, 2013.

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• Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.

  Rita Rudner

  Mistake, Mean, Men

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