Quotes About Individuality

We all have different strengths, different gifts.

Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.

I really try to play to my strengths, man. I'm never going to be Guthrie Govan: he's a brilliant player.

I understand what I look like, and I understand the strengths I have, which is basic, generic white guy.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Each city has strengths. Cities should be developed with their own individuality and characteristics.

Individually we all have to play to our strengths.

Everybody has different strengths. That's the fun thing about tennis.

You can learn from others but you have to be yourself. You can't start out with the idea that you have to copy others, you have to play to your strengths.

One way I deal with stress is when I feel a certain way, I just do it. It's like, I want a hamburger, so I'm just going to eat a hamburger. I don't want to answer your phone call right now - I'm not going to answer your phone call. Just be able to say, 'This is how I feel. This is the way it is, deal with it.'

There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome.

Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.

The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can't stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

I didn't choose Goldberg because I wanted to be the flagship for the Jewish movement, not by any stretch of the imagination. I chose Goldberg because no one else can own it.

We went through a nice stretch of big guys. But soon, everyone is going to realize that there's only one Steph Curry.