Quotes About Individuality

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

We are the children of one creator. We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.

Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.

Equality has no place for genius.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.