Quotes About Individuality

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.""...If you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe--but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.

In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and identity of their own volition, they are also relinquishing their claim to being human.

Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Without a solid sense of self, individuals will remain spiritually enslaved to the group, even if the social system changes.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

i am referred to as Alexandrina Victoria. But i do not like the name Alexandrina. From now on i wish to be called Victoria.

But much better to be peculiar than to be "fashionable

My fellow officers find that peculiar but I am rather proud of my eccentricities

The point is, don't lie about who you are, Sloan. Own it in all its sordid, live, loud, and proud way. It might not be what everyone labels correct, especially the women in your life, but at least it's honest.

I don't share your views, Mom. That doesn't mean I don't love you, or respect your choices or advice. It just means we disagree,

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.