“Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.” TryingIndividualFigures Author:Misty Copeland
“The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.” DifferentIndividualFiguresShadowCriticismPraiseLandscapeLackingFadingCriticism Of Others Author:Richard Bode
“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.” Has BeensIdeasCharacterMightMovingIndividualFiguresMovementIntellectualClimateClubsNarrativeSubtleInterpretationEntertainingMinorsSensibilityPortraitsMetaphysicalMight Have BeenColorfulIlluminatingMilieuAstute Author:George Scialabba
“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.” MenBodyIndividualBrainBloodFiguresInformationFundamentalsInstinctSpeciesCollectivesSolitarySuperiorityInferiority Author:Philip Wylie
“It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.” IfsFirstsJesusIndividualChristAtheismCenturyFiguresHistoricalPositive AtheismUnclesConstructsTheologianSymbolicTheologicalSyntheticNazarethUncle Sam Author:Robert M. Price
“It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.” StatesIndividualOpinionAtheismFiguresBehaviorVicesPositive AtheismPublic Figures Author:Marquis de Sade
“Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!” DifferentStoriesIndividualLeftGenerationsJourneyFiguresSolitudeMythInterpretationLegendsMetaphoricalIndividual LifePrevious GenerationsSignpostsPersonal Journey Author:Fred Van Lente
“Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.” PlayIndividualSportsEnjoyTeamFiguresDoctorsI've LearnedNurseTherapistsSkatingFigure Skating Author:Debi Thomas
“Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.” FactsHappensTogetherIndividualPiecesFiguresInformationProduceThings HappenLinkedAmazing Things Author:Ben Goldacre