Quotes About Individuality

Our people don't have one look, one background, one culture," says Erik. "The common thread is they are themselves. They are genuine.

Indeed, being relevant is not the problem. However, the obsessive, all-consuming desire to want to be accepted by the world because you are relevant is! The minute this becomes our modus operandi, we compromise ourselves right out of our purpose, which is to be salt and light in a darkened world.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

I wanted to be part of the gang, and the quickest way to screw up something like that is to act like a drag

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.

A person can function normally in a million and one ways and hold the most irrational beliefs imaginable, as long as the irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

Really, old chap," he said, "I don't mean to run down a man you like, but for the life of me I can't see what the deuce you find in common with Mr. Wilde. He's not well bred, to put it generously; he is hideously deformed; his head is the head of a criminally insane person. You know yourself he's been in an asylum—

Acting out of obligation, form or tradition is deadly, because giving up one's ability to act out of free choice is equivalent to giving up life itself.

She is 25. Whereas Pauline at forty undresses in the darkness and drapes herself languorously with a sheet or towel, Blanche stretches naked on her back under the electric light, her left knee raised, her right foot resting on it, examining her wriggling toes. She flings out her arm and flicks ash in the vague direction of the ashtray.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

I would wish it on no one to be me. Only I am capable of being myself. To know so much, to have seen so much, and To say nothing, just about nothing.

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

When will suffering cease? Not until individuality is lost.

to whom does this free will matter?

A person who desires [something "apart"], identifies with the body.

If I let go of that feeling and cease to identify with it—in other words, take a step toward the interior version of the not-self experience—I'm rejecting natural selection's insistence that I consider myself special. Take that, natural selection!

La percepción es un proceso activo que constantemente está construyendo modelos del mundo. Esa es una de las razones por las que cada persona ve cosas diferentes en los manchones abstractos de tinta utilizados en las pruebas de Rorschach: nuestra mente trata de convertir incluso los patrones más ambiguos en algo que tenga sentido. Nos gusta tener una historia sobre lo que son y lo que significan las cosas.

I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Por definición, los recuerdos son una versión personal, libre y subjetiva de un individuo, y no postulan jamás a ser la historia oficial. Tienen la modestia de las manos callosas, la singularidad de un rostro, la limitación de una forma particular de sentir.

No mire lo que hagan los demás. No se le importe un pepino de lo que opine el prójimo. Sea usted, usted mismo sobre todas las cosas, sobre el bien y el mal, sobre el placer y sobre el dolor, sobre la vida y la muerte. Usted y usted. Nada más. Y será fuerte como un demonio entonces.

cada uno tiene que conocer en la vida muchas tristezas. Lo notable es que cada tristeza es distinta de la otra, porque cada una de ellas se refiere a una alegría que no podemos tener.

No existo ni para el capitán ni para Elsa, ni para Barsut.