Quotes About Individuality

Dare to be yourself

But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

Tandis que son corps la lâche, Marie se souvient : "Je ne serai pas ta routine." Et Steph de rétorquer : "Je ne deviendrai jamais ton habitude.

Be what you are, do what you want. Treat others how you want to because equality in this time is just a humour.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Andre, he says, some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You're a thermostat. You don't register the temperature in a room, you change it. So be confident, be yourself, take charge. Show her your essential self.

I'm flattered by the imitators, embarrassed, thoroughly confused. I can't imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi, since I don't want to be Andre Agassi.

Le spun oamenilor c? nu m? uit la programe sportive. Nu-mi plac. Cum adic?? Adic?, nu-mi place sportul. Ei râd. Adic? nu-mi place niciun sport în afar? de tenis? Nu, tenisul îl ur?sc mai mult decât pe toate celelalte. Da, da, sigur c? e o glum?. Nu ai cum s? ur??ti tenisul. Ba da.

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.

Different people carry different toolboxes.

It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us

Each creature comes into being unique. Anything which destroys that individuality, anything which eliminates or adulterates mind or will or spirit, strikes at the very basis of life, at its greatest glory, its greatest strength, its very core.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and conditioned by upbringing

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

I could never dream of being cool.

Nessuno di noi due aveva grandi legami con gli altri nostri compagni, io per timidezza e perché li consideravo parte di un mondo che non volevo accettare, Guido perché era troppo diverso da loro.

Non mi sembra affatto di essere meglio degli altri: è l'idea di vedere i miei difetti moltiplicarsi per centinaia di volte che accentua la mia insofferenza e la riflette tutto intorno.