Quotes About Individuality

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

All of us are mad and then she adds,smiling, but I'm the only one with a certificate to prove it

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.

I'm going to make a world for myself by my rules, not anybody else's. Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.

You don't have to do anything, you only have to be what you are.

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I'm weird, Eli said later. It's like she thinks I'm a freak or something. No matter what I do, it's not 'normal' enough for her.

Membership in small groups allows people to feel similar and different at the same time: similar because they are a part of a group in different because the group is separate from the masses.

QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

Whoever you are, however insignificant you think you are, you are a unique manifestation of the Divine in this material world—an individualized piece of God. You are here for an important purpose.

Make your own kind of music. Sing your own special song. But don't crank the volume up so loudly you annoy the heck out of all the neighbors.

Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The nigger that bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique. 2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

and that leaves me. And that leaves you.

In retrospect, the reason for her decision seems evident. Our Noriko, for so many years troubled by the demands of society on one hand and the needs of the self on the other, finally decided. She would do what she wanted. And she did. All attempts to lure her out over the years have been rebuffed. When a documentary was made on Ozu, she refused to appear, just as, when he died, she did not attend his funeral. Setsuko Hara was her own person at last. On Japanese actress Setsuko Hara

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.