#individual

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#cannot #depends #dint #except #exertion

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#call #design #fact #group #in fact

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution. ↗

— John Thune

#attack #before #being #chance #dismiss

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#group #individual #more #power #predatory

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#between #change #course #depend #even

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#any #chaos #existence #generality #indeed

I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate. ↗

— Rick Perry

#bailout #change #democratic #going #got

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#every #get #hard #individual #like