Quotes About Individuality

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

That's what it says in my IEP, which is more letters. More initials that define who I am.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer, something quite out of the ordinary about her mind. Most people had minds which dealt with one thought, and then another, one at a time. Hers very often dealt with two, even three, all at the same time." Damask Greenway from Afternoon of an Autocrat

When were in the prence of another person, there Is always a masks, even if that mask is our face. There is no escaping it. And so the vast majority of what we say to each other, whether it is to our spouses, our family, our confessor, or perfect strangers, amounts to chitchat all the same. Or at best, a crack audition for that juiciest of all parts were literally dying to play: ourselves.. But alone. Fuckin A- ALONE were genius.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological "oddities," he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. "I hate crowds in science," he tells me. He doesn't fancy large scientific meetings either. "I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don't polish the brass on the bandwagon." Beginning

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Do not compare" is the mantra of moral blackmailers.

Protection," John Stuart Mill wrote, "against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Involuted Eros and involuted aggression constitute the "autonomous self" or what passes for individuality in the human species.

I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

The primary function of education is to make one maladjusted to ordinary society.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.