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121 " Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just "
― Michela Wrong , In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
122 " Let it be stated clearly that mysticism is an a-rational type of experience, and in some degree common to all men.It is an intuitive, self-evident, self-recognized knowledge which comes fitfully to man. It should not be confounded with the instinctive and immediate knowledge possessed by animals and used by them in their adaptations to environment.The average man seldom pays enough attention to his slight mystical experiences to profit or learn from them. Yet his need for them is evidenced by his incessant seeking for the thrills, sensations, uplifts, and so on, which he organizes for himself in so many ways--the religious way being only one of them. In fact, the failure of religion--in the West, at any rate--to teach true mysticism, and its overlaying of the deeply mystic nature of its teachings with a pseudo-rationalism and an unsound historicity may be the root cause for driving people to seek for things greater than they feel their individual selves to be in the many sensation-giving activities in the world today. "
― Paul Brunton , The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, the Ego: From Birth to Rebirth
123 " Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing. "
― Olavo de Carvalho
124 " At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. "
― George Orwell , 1984
125 " The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the " only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything. "
126 " Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately. "
― , The Mountain of Ignorance
127 " If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem. "
128 " Every individual has a role to play for the betterment of our nation. "
129 " To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may be determined by nothing human, but by some external permanency -- by something upon which our thinking has no effect. . . . Our external permanency would not be external, in our sense, if it was restricted in its influence to one individual. It must be something which affects, or might affect, every man. And, though these affections are necessarily as various as are individual conditions, yet the method must be such that the ultimate conclusion of every man shall be the same. Such is the method of science. Its fundamental hypothesis, restated in more familiar language, is this: There are Real things, whose characters are entirely independent of our opinions about them; those Reals affect our senses according to regular laws, and, though our sensations are as different as are our relations to the objects, yet, by taking advantage of the laws of perception, we can ascertain by reasoning how things really and truly are; and any man, if he have sufficient experience and he reason enough about it, will be led to the one True conclusion. The new conception here involved is that of Reality. "
130 " Mutually helping team members achieve both individual and team objectives. "
― Rajen Jani , Once Upon A Time: 100 Management Stories
131 " A team succeeds where an individual fails. "
132 " Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self. "
― Abhijit Naskar , Principia Humanitas
133 " Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self. "
134 " Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. "
― Jared Diamond , Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
135 " There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination. "
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136 " The strength of every individual is the grace for great work. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
137 " Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project. "
― Dragos Bratasanu , Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
138 " Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success. "
― Sahara Sanders
139 " Much protest is naïve; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. "
― Wendell Berry , What Are People For?: Essays
140 " Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society. "
― Doris Lessing , The Golden Notebook