Quotes About Individuality

Never compromise yourself..your all you got

Being envious of other people's talents will make you bitter. Being envious of other people will steal your joy. Be yourself. Believe me, the sooner you are able to cheer yourself on, the better. Do what YOU do and BE who YOU are.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty lavender paradise.

Race is not a barrier; it is a choice.

I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don't think my bathtub can hold that many people.

I want to upholster the inside lining of my nostrils with leather, to have that "new car smell" all the time.

Love one person at a time, that's the motto I'll try to get my clones to live by.

I haven't been feeling like myself lately. No, I've been feeling like my clone.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

To be free is to have a zone around you that is private, where you can be with your own thoughts, your own expeirements, for a time, between confrontations with the larger world.

If the child's unique qualities are not mirrored or supported, they are not available for her as a foundation. Instead of becoming grounded in her own nature, she adapts to what she thinks she is supposed to be, taking on a false self. For some people, this false self (which we all have to some degree) so obscures everything else that it's all they know.

Connecting to our own pain and the unique reality of our lives is a large part of the journey to spiritual maturity.

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it ' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

He justifies the cigarette burns as, "my way of not screaming or shouting when things fuck up. It's just discipline, and something to do. We never call each other cunts and wankers in this band. We just walk away." "What I usually do," pitches in Nicky, "is put all my clothes in the sink and wash 'em. That's the difference between him and me!

I had about 40 different nicknames, and I hated it, but I still thought I was better than the rest, because I was caring, sensitive and intelligent, and they weren't!

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.

Si lo que haces es ser como todos los demás, para qué te has metido en esto? Si te limitas a imitar a tus competidores, tu existencia no tiene sentido. Incluso si al final acabas perdiendo, es mejor caer luchando por lo que crees que limitarse a copiar a los demás.

fingers." You can buy the same guitar, effects pedals, and amplifier that Eddie Van Halen uses. But when you play that rig, it's still going to sound like you.

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.

Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures. If

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?