Quotes About Individuality

There was nothing meek about her. She supposed that God loved her, but in a personal way; she took it for granted that He admired her.

When you re the only one to do something it always gets done.

This was the start of a long friendship. I'm deeply indebted to Chester Yntema for his encouragement. Had he not believed that research should be fun, that you should do what you want rather than what's fashion-able, my first experiment would have been impossible, and this book would never have been written.

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

If some of the things sound a little childish, figure it out: do you think they're too childish, or do you think that if someone else saw you doing it, he would think it was childish?

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky, Singing School, 2013

Afternoon light like pollen. This is my language, not the one I learned.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Vid en första anblick framstår genetik och jämlikhet som varandras motsatser, eftersom genetiken strider mot den princip som man finner i den andra meningen i USA:s självständighetsdeklaration från 1776, nämligen att alla människor är skapade lika. ... Men "lika möjligheter" är återigen inte samma sak som identiska sådana. ... Demokratins själva essens är att alla ska behandlas rättvist trots att de är olika.

I]nsikten om genetikens betydelse, och om hur slumpmässiga de miljöbetingade influenserna är, kan göra det lättare för oss att acceptera och till och med njuta av att vi är som vi är, rent genetiskt. I stället för att sträva efter att vara någon som vi placerar på en befängt hög piedestal, kan det vara värt att pröva att söka efter sitt genetiska jag och försöka trivas med sig själv.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

Alas! there comes the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man…. Lo! I show you the last man. The earth has become small and on it hops the last man who makes everything small. His species is ineradicable like the ground flea; the last man lives longest.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

In the connected world, customers are no longer just a number or account; they are unique human beings with a distinct set of needs.

a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him. A man contains all these things, but he is greater than their total.

You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him.

When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other way around.

What's personality anyway? A mask of emotions, superimposed on the body and the intellect.

It is, in fact, a great mistake to think we must suppress observations of human differences if we are to do justice to human dignity. The dignity of the person is not touched by such observations, for the dignity of human beings as persons is not an object of observation but of recognition.

Now I was going to be myself. I wasn't going to be hard to get along with or go out of my way to say anything mean, but from now on people were going to have to take me for what I was.