Quotes About Individuality

I ought to have guessed that a person like her--a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us--I ought to have guessed that that kind of person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer.

I don't care about anybody being handsome, she said, but I never did go for anybody that reminded me of a box of spilled spaghetti. All elbows and dry rattle.

I ought to have guessed that a person like her—a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us—I ought to have guessed that that kind of a person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer. Even

He's interested in Willie. Quite simply and directly. And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's only the half-baked people like Mr. Patton who are interested in money. Even the big boys who make a real lot of money aren't interested in money. Henry Ford isn't interested in money. He is interested in Henry Ford and therefore he is a genius.

And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's

The person who loves you has picked you out of the great mass of uncreated clay which is humanity to make something out of, and the poor lumpish clay which is you wants to find out what it has been made into.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

If supremacy of conscience means anything, it means that the inner integrity of the individual is more important than any mental construct. If love means anything, it means accepting others in their differences from oneself as well as in their similarities.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

One of your father's modern ideas about parenting is to leave you alone and let you become the man you want to be, not the man he wants you to be.

The only place where he revealed the other Oliver, the machine-Oliver, was when it came to drugs. Second week on campus I scored some groovy Moroccan hash and he absolutely wouldn't. Told me that he'd spend 17½ years calibrating his head properly and he wasn't about to let it get messed up now.

Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile.

el único 10 que obtuve fue en el taller de talla de madera porque me encantaban las actividades manuales. Construí un bote en tanto que mis compañeros fabricaban ensaladeras para sus madres.

because our realities are different, we think differently and see the world differently.

the confidence to be true to who I am.

All too often, instead of trusting their inner wisdom, that genius inside, most people follow the crowd.

We just began to separate from the crowd.

If you do what the masses do, you get the following picture:

Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway.

you want to be rich, you need to think independently rather than go along with the crowd.

I love you, she said. You made me fall in love with you. I don't care how tall you are or what color your hair is-I care about you. You make me laugh. You're smart. You're gentle. And you're real, you're a real person, not some jock with a facade that's going to fall apart when I get to know him. I know you already, and I love you, you idiot. I don't care what you do with toilet paper.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.