Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tadashi Yanai

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Tom Robbins

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

Tom G. Palmer

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Stanislav Grof

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

Shawn Achor

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

Sergio Aragones

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Michael Lee-Chin

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

Rajneesh

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

Mercedes Ruehl

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Michael Moore

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

Nina Garcia

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

John Muir

Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

John Wooden

You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.

Theodor Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

John Stuart Mill

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

John Stuart Mill

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

John Stuart Mill

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

John Stuart Mill

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

Pharrell Williams

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

Nikita Khrushchev

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

Michel De Certeau

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Jim Balsillie

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Abdul Kalam

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

On the individual level there is a lot of short-term movement right now, as everyone knows that Japanese stocks are in an upward trend over the long term.

Mark Messier

I don't think any one individual can stand alone.

She is a talented individual and we wish her well in her new ventures.

I have always said we will pay for quality and professionalism and that does not mean taking the first individual available.

Jerry Rubin

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Jerry Spinelli

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

Jennifer Lopez

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

Jean M. Auel

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

Gaston Bachelard

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?