I Quotes
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“Individual differences in general cognitive ability is the single most important variable for understanding how well students … learn academic material.”
“Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression.”
“Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.”
“Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders”
“Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.”
“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.”
“Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.”
Source: The study of psychology; its object, scope, and method
“Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.”
“Individual free choices” can only be the expression of an “individual free will”.
The notion of an “individual free will” generating “individual free choices” creates a much needed consequence: personal accountability.
Personal accountability is vital for a primitive, immature human organization based on reprehension or praise.
The permanent interaction of a unique inherited Nature (and maybe a unique “soul”) with a unique nurture (environment), will always determine all our “individual free choices”, from cradle to grave.
It is impossible for the individual to be sentient before birth and choose these two or three unique factors.
The logic of holding someone personally accountable for a “non-chosen” choice eludes me.
The notion of individual free will can at best be a “gut felt” illusion, but can never have logical relevance.
What sort of human (and divine!) organization can be based on the consequence of a “gut felt” illusion?
-Our current one; primitive, illogical, unstable and permanently conflictual.
Be it for all individual choices or all differences, the definitive ban of the illusionary notion of personal accountability is the missing step that will lead to human maturity.
How’s your “gut” now?”
“Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.”
“Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.”
“Individual freedom is not something that can be shared, but in socialism we are talking about the freedom of many.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.”
“Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.”
“Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.”
“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”
Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.”
“Individual honors come with team success.”
“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.”
Source: The Appearance of Man
“Individual humans interacting with Platform K are considered a User in the Loop. There are others, time-division multiplexing allows the array to have multiple Users Simultaneously commutating into the Commutational Prime. Synchronous and Asynchronous Hierarchies allows for read/write simultaneity across Users.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.”
Source: On the development of peoples
“Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity”
“Individual intent is not necessary for systemic evil.”
“Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.”
“Individual investors have significant advantages over professional money managers. Retail investors, like you and I, have nobody to report. We have no benchmark to beat and have no fear of capital flight. There are no quarter and year ends, and performance is not linked to calendars.”
“Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.”
“Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.”
Source: Organizational learning: a theory of action perspective
“Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.”
Source: Co-operation
“Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.”
“Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.”
Source: Collected Works
“Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.”
Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
“Individual liberty is individual power.”
Source: John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches
“Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.”
“Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.”
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
“Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.”
Source: Human behavior on the Internet
“Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.”
Source: The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture
“Individual peace is the unit of world peace.”
“Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.”
“Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.”
“Individual practitioners of tai chi, qigong, and Eastern martial arts have started to incorporate nauli into their practices. These disciplines share a belief in the fundamental role of the dantian in accumulating "qi" energy and applying it in daily life and training.”
Source: Enhancing the Benefits of Nauli with a Key Exercise for Abdominal Muscle Strength: Second Edition
“Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in discounts, service, and quality, and wage changes, in overtime, perquisites and so on…. But to whatever extent the freeze is enforced, it will do harm by distorting relative prices.”
Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“Individual profits cause collective growth and prosperity. It is necessary for individual people, businesses, and companies to profit, in a Permaculture Economy where justice is maintained and fairly applied. Profits are earned when efficiency is mastered. With profits, individuals invest in (a) new and innovative means of production which will allow more profits, or (b) they use profits to buy products or services from other individuals who are also seeking profit by providing value. Profits also incentivize individuals to be productive to begin with. If there will be no profit in an activity, business or industry, then individuals will decline participation. Since profits are only possible when buyers are satisfied with the productivity of sellers, then it is also true that an individual's willingness to participate in an activity, business or industry is preceded by the buyers satisfaction which allows them to profit. So, when buyers decline participation it forces sellers to decline participation. Inversely, if profits are removed through force of price controls by the government, then sellers will decline participation which then causes buyers to decline participation.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.”
“Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!”
“Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.”
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness