I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."”
“Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.”
Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur
“Individuals turn a blind eye to injustice for fear of getting a black eye.”
“Individuals understood in relational terms cannot be conceived as fully separate from their communities. Others in one's community may already be a part of the self. This conception of the person as overlapping in identity with others has normative implications for what constitutes the good of the individual and how that good relates to the good of others. One's relationship with others can form a part of one's good as an individual, such that one can have a compelling interest in the welfare of these others and in one's relationship with them.”
“Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.”
“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“Individuals were all right, she said to herself, lots of them, but it was this rigid system that kept people from knowing each other. Was there another country in the world where the class barriers were so high as in England, and where it was so loudly proclaimed that none existed at all?”
Source: Clash
“Individuals who are perfectionists are more likely to comply with norms and to be critical of their own shape, and high trait perfectionism is a documented risk factor for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as it increases drive for thinness. Drive for thinness is notably predicted by anxiety sensitivity and poor interoceptive awareness, the ability to understand physiological and emotional cues within the body, critical to self-awareness in linking cognitive and emotional processes.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.”
“Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.”
“Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.”
“Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.”
“Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.”
“Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.”
“Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.”
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”
“Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”
“Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.”
“Individuals who love working with people and who want to engage in a career making travel a real pleasure can register in a kindness management program. The hospitality field embraces all kinds of amenities, ranging from large hotels and antiquated bed and breakfasts to resorts and casinos, everything that can make guests feel comfortable.”
“Individuals who put underground their grief stay trapped in it. You will forever have your breakthrough!”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.”
“Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.”
“Individuals will remain resolute in their identity, despite challenges and pressures against their core beliefs.”
“Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.”
Source: The Double Win
“Individuals with a growth mindset don't shy away from challenges; instead, they see them as integral to achieving their goals and advancing along their journey of continuous improvement.”
“Individuals with Eds evaluate food and body related cues as emotional events and these events trigger dysregulated responses, including deficits in healthy coping strategies and use of maladaptive strategies. Emotional dysregulation and disordered eating worsen in a vicious cycle: engaging in disordered eating, such as restricted food or purging, provides escape from negative emotion particularly when it is stimulated from a food or body related cue, like shopping for a new workout clothing.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted effort on the part of businesses to seek out those with exceptional decision-making abilities, the gap between who businesses actually need, and who they hire and promote, will remain wide.”
“Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.”
“individuals with ME/CFS experience different types of fatigue than what are reported in the general populations”
“Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.”
“Individul este produsul drepturilor omului, cetățeanul este produsul politicului.”
Source: Cine suntem
“Indië is een materieel land? Neen… de Hollanders zijn er materialisten, en zien dan Indië, zooals ze zelf zijn… maken het zóó. Zij leven niet in Indië, zij jagen er alleen naar voordeel. Een jacht naar geld, woest en zonder mededoogen, niet om en voor Indië, maar voor zichzelf, om zelf binnen te zijn… zoo spoedig moogelijk te repatrieeren… In koeler klimaten rust te zoeken en het leven te genieten. Het laatste zegt alles… Het zegt, dat Indië voorbeschikt is eenmaal geen Nederlandsch-Indië meer te zijn…”
Source: Langs den gordel van smaragd
“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”
“Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.”
“Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Indoctrination is the dubious art of leading an individual to become convinced that some conviction arose from deep within the core of their being, when in fact it was subtly implanted from some place far outside of the core of anything except the greed of the one who planted it.”
“Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.”
“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”
“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.”
Source: Selected Poems of Herman Melville
“Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.”
“Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.”
“Indolence is the devil's cushion.”
“Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Indolence is the sleep of the mind.”
“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.”