Emerson Individualism Quotes & Sayings

Beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world — Charles Bukowski

For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator. — Bob Iger

Participate in your own dreams, don't just say what you want or complain about what you don't have. — Steve Maraboli

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain. — John Tukey

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. — Julie Burchill

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love isn't an obedient whim. It's an unruly force. And it answers to no one. — Chelsea Fine

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge. — Samantha Bond

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not all black or white, there are shades of grey as well. It is this grey shade which provides maximum opportunities and multiple interpretations. — Mayank S. Sengar

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Robert D. Richardson

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963] — John F. Kennedy

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality. — Alfred L. Kroeber

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that. — Sylvester Stallone

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best. — Bindi Irwin

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. They cannot see in secret; they love to be blind in public. They think society is wiser than their soul, and know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Epictetus has had a long-standing resonance in the United States; his uncompromising moral rigour chimed in well with Protestant Christian beliefs and the ethical individualism that has been a persistent vein in American culture. His admirers ranged from John Harvard and Thomas Jefferson in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the nineteenth. More recently, Vice-Admiral James Stockdale wrote movingly of how his study of Epictetus at Stanford University enabled him to survive the psychological pressure of prolonged torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Stockdale's story formed the basis for a light-hearted treatment of the moral power of Stoicism in Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full (1998).52 — Epictetus

Our gridlocked conflicts contain the potential for great intimacy between us. But we have to feel safe enough to pull our dreams out of the closet. When we wear them, our partner may glimpse how beautiful we are - fragile but shimmering. Then, with understanding, our partners may join us in being dream catchers, rather than dream shredders. — John M. Gottman

What we were together had become so much more powerful, a force that took my breath away and made everything secondary. — Meredith Wild

I have to get the whole sense of the guy for me to be turned on by him, for me to actually like him. I like someone that has motivation and is really dedicated to something. — Natalie Martinez