Individual Quotes - Page 36

• Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

  Narendra Modi

  Philosophy, Yoga, Discipline

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• Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Oddities, Decision

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Pockets, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

  Joe Bowen

  Jobs, Night, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

  Sheila Heti

  People, Adults, Wanted

  "Should I Go to Grad School?: An Interview with Sheila Heti". Interview with Jessica Loudis, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Data, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.

  George Soros

  Attention, Morality, Influence

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The key to dealing with people in general is that they have to know that you care about them. You have to deal with people in gentleness. You have to come along side of them. You can't push them. You can't pull them. You have to walk with them. In order to do that, you've got to demonstrate care for that individual. That's my whole thing

  Lance Berkman

  Keys, Order, People

  "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

  Nicholson Baker

  Military, Bombs, Pearls

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives. In any case we will never all see the same way on these [religious] issues. It's the way liberals and conservatives will never see the same way on individuals whereas it’s different orientations and they go too deep down and when we're dealing with questions that can't be definitively answered by science that's where you're sort of... your orientation swells in to fill up the gaps and so we're never always going to agree.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Issues, Different

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

  Christoph Waltz

  People, Together, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

  John Adams

  Strength, Peace, Patriotic

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• Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

  James Larkin

  Liberty, Worship, Enjoy

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• A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Educational, Skills

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• Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Real, Hard Work

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• John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance... This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John's baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism.

  John Piper

  Believe, Commitment, People

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• The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

  Ed Crane

  Government, Choices, Liberty

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• Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Law, Justice, Diversity

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• Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Educational, Heart

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• Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

  Voltaire

  Failure, Giving, Fine

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• Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.

  Ravi Shankar

  Thinking, Special, Enlightenment

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• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  Brian Wilson

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Law, Effort

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• There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Two, Exception To The Rule, Trying

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