Quotes About Individuality

The answer is simple: You are you, the person who will live with the consequences of what you do. No one else can be responsible, because no one else will experience the consequences of your actions as you will.

Everyone begins life as a free person. But as time passes, most people accept the prearranged programs and never stop to realize the freedom they possess. They accept standards and situations that are unsuitable to them.

Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into books.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

Only when she was alone did she have the sense that she really existed; other people might be frightened precisely because of that sense, but she was frightened of other people because they stole it from her.

Ieder mens heeft geloof ik het gevoel, dat hij er eigenlijk niet bijhoort, bij het leven van de andere mensen. Dat hij op een of andere manier iets anders is, een gast, en hij doet alle mogelijke moeite om te zorgen, dat de anderen dat niet zullen merken. Dat is het gevoel, dat alle mensen gemeen hebben, en daardoor horen ze juist bij elkaar.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.

I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

Students should be told how to think, not what to think!

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

there is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: They discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.