Quotes About Individuality

sibling who doesn't fit in or follow the paths the rest of us take; who challenges and bewilders, upsets and dazzles us; who scares some of us away; but who still loves us, in his or her way.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Why should a poem please even a majority of readers or listeners? Perhaps someone needs the particular poem that you wrote. You probably do, at any rate.

Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.

Educators say that every child can learn, but they understand that children learn at different rates and that some inevitably learn more than others.

Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

He took great pleasure in teasing her; he'd decided that Bee was no name for a person, and that it must just be the first letter of her real name. So every time he came in, he addressed her by a new and awful name that started with B.

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.

Shame based on sexual status, whether it is because of lots of sexual activity or none at all, is wrong. All

This is the freedom of the gospel—that we are free to be whom God made us to be, not confined to a box of aggressive masculinity or demure femininity.

In evangelical-speak, this is meeting people where they are. But I would add the following caveat: we must meet people where they are without a desire to change them into our image of what they should be.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

God's image has been imprinted uniquely on each of us. In God's infinite creativity there are no duplicates; you are the only you there has ever been or ever will be.

Now the spotlight comes on and I'm saying to myself, 'Earvin, you don't play the game above the rim. You play it cerebrally. You play it in an intelligent way and just be who you are.