Quotes About Individuality

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Grown men do not need leaders.

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.