Quotes About Individuality

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

Professional means you have to do things according to the book. They call you Professional to limit your ability. Don't strive to be professional, but to be the best you can be

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what's to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.

People are more than just the way they look.

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

But what was fortune? She had come to believe it was being exactly the same on the inside as on the outside. What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

She wanted to tell him that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize that it wasn't the Party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

It was very modern and deeply western to listen to music that no one else could hear. Private music led to private thoughts. Private thoughts led to private desires, to private fulfillments or private hungers, to a whole private universe away from parents, family and society.

She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize it wasn't the party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

don't forget the value of who you are no matter what kind of hat you are wearing.

It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.

Parents who have more than one child are very aware that, while we certainly have an impact on our child's development, it has as much to do with them as with us. "I can't believe how different my kids are" should inform us that child development is an uneven process only partly tied to parenting (and no one knows exactly how much that "partly" is).

the development of a sense of self.

Working primarily to please others and to gain their approval takes time and energy away from children's real job of figuring out their authentic talents, skills, and interests.

clear that she and her daughter were two separate people with very different life experiences, decide how much of her history to share with her daughter, and, finally, commit to changing her own behavior.

In the real world, success has all kinds of different faces in all kinds of different fields of endeavor. It would be nice if we could acknowledge as much to our kids.

Our job is to produce and guide our children; not to reproduce ourselves. Nor should we want to. One of the absolute miracles of life is the profound uniqueness of each person.