#individuals

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#best interests #club #decisions #executives #i

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. ↗

— Brian Moore

#individuals #made #up #want #who

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

#exertions #general #general welfare #individuals #must

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ↗

— William Pollard

#individuals #leadership #opportunity #provide #responsibility

... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools ↗

— Norman Friedman

#poetry #spirituality #stereotypes #art

I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents? ↗

— Joshua Foer

#humanity #memory #talent #art

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #before #cuts #economy #firmer

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that." [Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998] ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#continuum #history #humanity #individuals #mankind

The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. you may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are like snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, (...) but still unique. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inpirational #motivating #one-of-a-kind #unique #change

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#born #cultures #democracies #division #emancipation