Individual Difference Quotes

Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.

I just couldn't get along with L.A. It just wasn't me.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.

My sisters take, like, hours to get ready, and I'm, like, really quick. I think I get that from my dad.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.

Maybe it's a personality thing individual to me, but actors always benefit from body awareness.

It's not a gender thing. You can pick anyone off the street and it depends on his or her own character how they can drive a car.

I just have an ability to heal quicker than others I guess.

We are not all able to do all things.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports.

I'm a visual person.