Quotes About Individuality

Character Profile: MOE DRABOWSKY

She's not royalty for Christ's sake. She's a Grape.

First, people may vary because they inherited different genes from their parents. Second, genetically similar individuals may differ because they have lived in different environments.5 Finally, people may differ because they have acquired different beliefs, values, and skills

It's the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore

This is one reason why modern people are so unprepared for death: death is the one thing society can't do for you, the one thing that forces you to confront your trans-social self. We live as "the lonely crowd", but we die one at a time.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

No man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence about how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.

U svakom podru?ju života, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokušavati biti originalan i re?i istinu onako kako je vidiš.

life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.

You're…normal." "That's the first time anyone's called me that in my life

Cass had photo recall and could speak backward at will. Aly was a hacker genius and movie expert. Marco was Michael Jordan on steroids, without the steroids. I was chopped liver.

Normal is the enemy of interesting.

In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

Separated from the herd, it gains identity.

Self-confidence is being able to say to another, I am what I am, and as long as I am not physically harming you or your property, your not liking what I am is your problem.

For Elvis, individual style came unconsciously, from within, demanding expression years before he could have been categorized as an artist. His unique appearance was uncontrived, something that emerged from him, rather than something put onto him.

But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix.

The idea that one man's unique personal vision is greater than the importance of fashions in art or mainstream type philosophy.

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

to follow her own path and leave him. Even the kids had complained when they were growing

Dar frumuseÅ£ea lui Grace era cu totul deosebit?. Nu era perfect?, într-adev?r. Îns? perfecÅ£iunea e plictisitoare.

There was something in him that always stood apart, that she couldn't reach and he wouldn't offer. It wasn't just the Job and its demands, but something deeper: a central core of loneliness. He had been like that even as a child. An observer. Always on the outside, even when he played with others. As Annie said, it was a part of his nature, and he didn't think he could change it if he tried.