Quotes About Uniqueness

Being original doesn't require being first. It just means being different and better.

Ser original no implica ser el primero... solo significa ser diferente y mejor.

The principle of optimal distinctiveness: we look for ways to fit in and stand out. A popular way to achieve optimal distinctiveness is to join a unique group.... Studies show that people identify more strongly with individuals and groups that share unique similarities. The more rare a group, value, interest, skill, or experience is, the more likely it is to facilitate a bond. And research indicates that people are happier in groups that provide optimal distinctiveness.

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different

We are the only animal that cooks.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

To be loved uniquely—for one's own special self—is to be loved as much as we need to be loved.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

To do something very common, in my own way.

There aren't any people aligned with me passionately.

You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Ain't nothing wrong with college, but I just feel like everyone's paths are different.

All our paths are different.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.