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“I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.”

People Thinking Knows Individual Too Much Know Me Deviate

“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Thinking Art School Individual Painting Finished Painter Realising Layers Often Is Art School

Author:Chris Ofili

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.”

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Author:James Laughlin

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

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Author:James Laughlin

“There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful if they're somewhat powerful. You simply have to remove yourself inwardly from these individuals.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Sometimes Individual Powerful Negative Painful Remove Think Of You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.”

Thinking Individual Sports Health Buddhism Victory Ego Achievement West Defeat Agony Thrill Athletics Individual Achievement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.”

Thinking Trying Persons Philosophy Actors Individual Process Honesty Honestly Manipulate Animator

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Individual Player Discipline Structure Add Hand In Hand

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“As individuals think and believe, so they are.”

Thinking Believe Individual Belief

Book:Strangest Secret

Source: Strangest Secret

“Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.”

Thinking Giving Individual Goal Situation Player Team Talent Style Concerned Setting Settings Deceiving Individual Style

Author:Ronaldinho

“I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.”

People Thinking Knows Years Kind Hard Courses Individual Roles Band Bigger

Author:Stone Gossard

“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

Thinking World Kind Doe Made Certain Individual Views Responsibility Known Fate Impossible Depends Ethics Conscience Essence Excuse Point Of View Ethical Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.”

Thinking Individual Groups Photograph

Author:Martin Parr

“[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.”

Thinking Should Home Individual Taste

Author:Julie London

“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”

Thinking Evil Individual Trouble Honest Becoming Authority Blind Obedience Inquiry Likelihood Blind Obedience

Author:Charles Kimball

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.”

“I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

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Book:Light Up the Cave

Source: Light Up the Cave

“The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men and women, .. I think that is what makes us such a draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States to be educated, to become Americans. We are a country of countries and we touch every country, and every country in world touches us.”

“What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.”

Thinking Important Joy Individual Concern

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Able Individual Can Do Imagine Risk Weapons Harm Nuclear Enormous Isolated Nuclear Weapons Lunatic Civil Society

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.”

Thinking Men War Individual Blood Advantage Tired Rewards Soldier Treasure Peril

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.”

Thinking Believe Would Be Individual I Believe Revolution Direct Simplicity Simple Life Simple Living Individual Life Living A Simple Life

Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Individual Easier Response Made It

Book:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

“Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"”

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Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.”

“I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.”

Thinking Whole Individual Nations Roles Citizens

Author:Tim Scott

“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.”

“I love N.Y.C.! I cant think of any individual that hates New York.”

Thinking Hate Individual New York Cant

Author:Theophilus London

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.”

Thinking Enough Humanity Individual Judging Cold Warm

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.”

“If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

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Author:Julian Assange

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

“The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”

Thinking Individual Written Scene

Book:Further Requirements

Source: Further Requirements

“One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.”

Thinking Years Ideas Reason Hands Jobs Individual Appearance Deeper Reason Why Gentleman

Book:Vincent van Gogh

Source: Vincent van Gogh

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”

Thinking Giving Winning Individual Nations Community Challenges Accepting Successful Greater Revolution Depends Lessons Essence Structure I've Learned

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Individual Wise Storytelling Satisfying Cliffs Sequels Hangers

Author:Rian Johnson

“I see a lot of people dressing very similarly, and I see brands being cool because of their name and because of who wears the brands, but that's always been the case. That's kind of the history of fashion. You know, celebrities wear their clothes and people think these celebrities are cool, and then the clothes become valuable. It gives clothes a commodity factor once a certain individual starts wearing that brand. But do I think there's something wrong? I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.”

“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”

“We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.”

Thinking Humans Individual Differences Individual Differences

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”

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Author:William Ernest Hocking

“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

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