Quotes About Individuality

A person's first thought is rarely their own. More often than not, it belongs to a parent, a teacher, a coach, a professor, an old boss, or is something they have recently read in the newspaper or have seen on TV.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Her pants were so tight that if you cut her she wouldn't bleed

Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

I do things my way -Lucky Santangelos

Have you noticed how every tree is different here? All twisted by the wind and snow, but if that was all, they should have been twisted in the same way. It's as though every tree has made up its own mind exactly how it wants to grow.

Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.

Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self. (In reference to Audre Lorde)

I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?

Do things in your own time. Everybody should like how they choose. We never know what goes behind the blinds.

Old women and cats do as they please.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

There's a lot you can do with a name like Amelia. You can play with it, sure, is what you think I'm going to say. Make it cute (Amy), or cuter (Millie), complaining (Meelie), or French, I guess, like the movie (Amélie). You can step right into that name, is what I mean, and walk around. Swim with it or spill it on your shirt. Whisper it over like a sad, soft ache, or bark it out aloud like a mad, manic message: camellia, come heee-re, a-million, ah murder you, ye-eah.

Bindy Mackenzie talks like a horse.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime." Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values

Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvellous plasticity of mind.