Quotes About Individuality

Que Neruda me perdone, pero a veces sucede que me canso de ser mujer.

It's strange that the tendency in this global world is to accentuate identities, picking the one that most marginalizes you—sexuality, race, disability. I'm struck by the way we all rush to join our particular group, emphasizing what makes us different from everyone else, in order to make us all the same.

Es raro que la tendencia en el mundo global sea la de acentuar identidades, eligiendo la que más te margina —identidad gay, de raza, de discapacitado—. Me impresiona cómo corremos todos a adherirnos a nuestro grupo, haciendo hincapié en lo que más nos diferencia de los demás. Para hacernos iguales.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Dijo Pep: "Todos sois iguales es la mentira más grande que existe en el deporte. No todos son iguales, ni todos deben ser tratados iguales".

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

I'm completely on board with fashion as an expression of individuality, but T'Chia seemed to be expressing several individuals.

Most people find it difficult to believe that others choose a way of life that is unlike their own. They prefer to think that it must be forced upon them through necessity or that they harbour a desire to be 'different', otherwise it might be seen as a criticism of their own decisions.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

True individuality can be lonely.

The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares. Therefore, as Mr. Wilde said, no two people can perceive the same "truth," because each person's perspective is different.

to encourage people to take responsibility for who they really are. And it is the only way to show respect for each person. Focusing on strengths is the storyline that explains all their efforts as managers.

everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her belief that she cannot force everyone to perform the same way. ... The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and let each person find his own route toward these outcomes.

Take care what you say! I'll have no hard words. Wretch! If I am a wretch, who made me one? If I hate you and myself and the world, who made me hate it? I was born free - as free as you are. Why should I be sent to herd with beasts, and condemned to this slavery, worse than death? Tell me that, Maurice Frere - tell me that!

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on,' he wrote in describing his method, 'as long as something is said. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain.