“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.” RunningYoungWinningIndividualLosesChanceCompanyHigherPureToughSeekingWinnerFollyFundInvestorsSophisticatedTicketsVentureLotteryLottery Ticket Author:Steven Rattner
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.” MayRunningOpportunityIndividualLeftGoalPathWindPureWeightOneselfBurdenBlockMotiveStoppingTrailsFrustratingDroppingShoutingSidelines Author:Criss Jami
“A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.” HeartDoeSpiritIndividualPurePure Heart Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.” SaidMatterIndividualInterestCommunityCommonConditionsDevelopmentPureSupremePursueGoodsCommon GoodIndividual Power Author:William Ernest Hocking
“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.” MayIndividualBeliefGivenObjectsPureDegreesEssenceUniversalRelationDefinitionsComplexity Author:George Santayana
“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.” MenLooksPersonsDoeIdeasStatesGovernmentIndividualChurchClassDemocracyGreaterOughtBirthPureOppositesRegardPropertyAccidentsMeritHolinessEtcInternalsAllowingReverseLook At MeDisregard Book:Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayAbleAmericaRomanceGuyIndividualRaceTypeHeroTomorrowBlessingPureDemandToughTrackYesterdayEnjoyedThoughtfulPrimitiveUniformsInvincibleDoubtfulAccommodateTough GuyUnderprivileged Author:Ellen Glasgow