Best individual & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Clement Freud

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

Art Inspiration Past Artist Individual Results Education Study Talent Taught Art Is Tradition Deny

Author:Gustave Courbet

“For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.”

Men Made Whole Past Life Is Individual Environment Mankind Possession Valuable Agents Our Time Links Heritage Menace Individual Life Deterioration

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.”

Past Courses Individual Interest Acceptance Fairs Profit Driving Obligation Initiative Incentives Public Interest

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.”

Together Past Individual Saws I Realized Tied Bike Messengers

Author:Dania Ramirez

“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.”

Source: Road to Science Fiction 2

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.”

Years Art Done Past Individual Deals Produce Tradition Originals Fake Streams Heritage Emphasis Crops Eccentric Knowledge And Experience Individual Work

Author:John French Sloan

“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”

“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Persons Has Beens Past Remember Individual Lost Nations Memories Knowing Conception Denied Not Knowing Deprived Disabled Dealing With It

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.”

Knows Giving Humans Wells Looks Stories Past Individual Human Beings Common Millions Know How Locks Miraculous God Knows

Book:Elizabeth Costello

Source: Elizabeth Costello

“No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.”

Made Government Past Faces Individual Support Policy Sentences Terrorist Intervention Australian Diplomatic Lead In Intervening

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

World Looks Past Spirit Individual Poor Views Stage Regret Mark Independence Point Of View Artistic Substitutes Glamour Present Day Old World Individual Freedom Festivities

Author:Flora Thompson

“Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.”

Art Past Names Individual Common Enlightenment Connections India Claims Historical Martial Arts Rama Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the family has been brought into its natural order, the individual can leave it behind him while still feeling the strength of his family supporting him. Only when the connection to his family is acknowledged, and the person's responsibility seen clearly and then distributed, can the individual feel unburdened and go about his personal affairs without anything from the past weighing him down or holding him back.”

Feels Persons Has Beens Stills Feelings Past Order Individual Natural Behinds Responsibility Connections Affair Weighing Natural Order

Author:Bert Hellinger

“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.”

Mind Long Whole Facts Past Science Values Individual Results Depends Long Time Research Discovery Embrace Complexes Enterprise Collectives Exception Inventor

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.”

“The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.”

Ifs Long Ends Seems Past Individual Long Time Inexplicable

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.”

Past Individual Nations Ability Study Victory Foundation Lays Errors Empowering

Author:Aberjhani

“Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Philosophy Past Individual Understanding Results Existence Personality Ambition Affair Planning Backgrounds Founders

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.”

Mind Humans Country Past Faces Individual Ability Masters Mirrors Resilience Fixed Officials Human Mind Dogma Frozen Reliance Impotence Inquiring

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”

Men Wells Has Beens War Past Fighting Individual Nations Materials Amount Standards Army Soldier Proportion Equations Standards Of Living

Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.”

Past Purpose Passion Individual Given Community Chance Half Issues Revolution Ideals Transformation Species Cosmos Adolescence Units Annihilation Deployment Family Unit New Family

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

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