Quotes About Individuality

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!