Quotes About Individuality

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

It doesn't change what happened. It simply reveals the truth that we're all weird. We're all messy in our own way.

meal together, their internal lives far more interesting than the ones they share with each other.

Want to give up saving the world and come play with me?" There is something utterly fearless about her that I admire. While I've been fretting about how to put my skills to better use for humanity and almost dying or getting imprisoned in the process, here's a free spirit who's decided to let the world figure its own shit out while she has a blast making a fortune's worth of fuck-you money.

For she was not of their world nor did she share their values. When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.

As she once remarked, "Disobedience is my joy.

I always felt so different - I felt I was in the wrong shell.

Inside the system I was treated very differently, as though I was an oddball. I felt I wasn't good enough. Now, thank God, I think it's okay to be different.

I am normal, it's okay to be me, it's all right

Opportunity beckoned. As the Princess admitted: 'I have learned much over the last years. From now on I am going to own myself and be true to myself. I no longer want to live someone else's idea of what and who I should be. I am going to be me.

I have learned much over the last years. From now on I am going to own myself and be true to myself. I no longer want to live someone else's idea of what and who I should be. 'I am going to be me.

The man himself.

Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.

for only with independence can you let your own life express itself naturally. To be tied down to someone else's routine, doing things you dislike Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is not life Ã¢â'¬â€œ not for me .

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

I liked her hair, fine and bright yellow, like corn. But I'd never been interested in people like that. I'd expected that to change as I'd gotten older, but those much-vaunted pubescent urges just never struck me the same way they seemed to hit other people.

As a general rule, you have to accept that no matter where you work, you are not an employee—you are in a business with one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses.

And maybe that's the whole point, after all - that everyone of us who existed spent all those limitless days over the thousands of centuries we were here just trying to figure out what it meant to be us. The mousetrap trigger is this precise point: Pour the word us into the coding of a human, and we immediately discount as inferior or useless all the not-us things in the universe. Are you one of us?

Andrew Szerba, whose Polish name was my name, Andrzej, also had bags under his eyes. Andrzej means man in Polish boy names.

I think everyone's an arrow like that, too, aiming into their own centers.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

I think I'm the fucking man. I think I'm cool as fuck, and I'm happy with that. And I'm happy to live my life this way because I find it a source of motivation.

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to. I live, though, no matter what.