Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Joyce

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Eric Kandel

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

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.

Mark Feehily

...Always be proud of yourself and understand that it's your individuality that makes you beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Shunryu Suzuki

Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Shannon Tweed

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

Stan Getz

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

Sophie Swetchine

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Tadashi Yanai

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Tom G. Palmer

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

Josiah Royce

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Richard Thompson

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

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?

Jerry Spinelli

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

Frank Gehry

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

Felix Frankfurter

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Faith Popcorn

To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

Catharine MacKinnon

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

Ernest Renan

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Murray Gell-Mann

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

Harold Bloom

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Gloria Steinem

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.