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Quotes About Individuality

one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. —Children's folk rhyme
~ Ken Kesey
I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal
~ Ken Kesey
Den Der Marcherer Ude Af Takt Hører En Anden Tromme.
~ Ken Kesey
There's nothing worse for a forest than to have all the trees be the same
~ Ken Kesey
He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum
~ Ken Kesey (Author)
The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!
~ Ken Wilber
Your "overall self" is your True Self (or Witness) plus your conventional, relative, finite self, and that finite self can be a false (inaccurate) or an authentic (accurate) self-concept. The choice is truly yours…
~ Ken Wilber
The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy—especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery—is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More
~ Ken Wilber
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
~ Joan Didion
We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
~ Donna Karan
Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.
~ Shiri Appleby
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.
~ John Dewey
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
~ Michelangelo
We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.
~ Michael Beckwith
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
~ Peter Jennings
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
~ Kenny Loggins
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
~ Ani DiFranco
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
~ Albert Camus
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
~ Barbra Streisand
Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.
~ Talulah Riley
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.
~ Minor White
There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.
~ Miranda July