Individuality Quotes - page 11

But my individuality, however all-sufficient for myself, is an infinitesimal point, an atom subject in all things to the Law of Storms called Life. (Richard Francis Burton)
I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting. View quote
Kristen Stewart
Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. View quote
Auguste Comte
If a considerable proportion of the present generation is to achieve individuality it must travel the road of collectivism. View quote
Kirby Page
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. View quote
Peter Gabriel
Partly from being a more scattered population, which leads to self-dependence - partly to their religious struggles having given an historical character to their ordinary remembrances, nourished by that family pride which loves to look back - there is more individuality among the Scotch than among any other peasantry. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. View quote
Frank Gehry
Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try. View quote
Frank Gehry
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. View quote
Ronnie James Dio
A view of the constitution of matter which recommended itself to Faraday as preferable to the one ordinarily held appears to me to be exactly the view I endeavor to picture as the constitution of spiritual beings. Centers of intellect, will, energy, and power, each mutually penetrable, while at the same time permeating what we call space, but each center retaining its own individuality, persistence of self, and memory. View quote
William Crookes
Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This struggle is not about sex. It is about privacy, individuality, and civil equality and the right of all Americans, not just gay and lesbian Americans, to be free. View quote
Michael Nava
Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not? View quote
Rabih Alameddine
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves. View quote
Steven Pinker
For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good. View quote
Saoirse Ronan
Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers. View quote
Twiggy
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. (Dian Fossey)
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. View quote
Lily Cole
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence. View quote
Juliana Hatfield
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future. View quote
Will Self
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. View quote
Anton LaVey