Quotes About Uniqueness

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

Finding such a person makes everyone else appear so ordinary…and if anything happens to him, you've got nothing left but to return to the ordinary world, and a kind of isolation that never existed before.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

Bir insan?n marÅŸ eÅŸliÄŸinde uygun ad?m yürümekten keyif alabilmesi, onu küçümsemem için yeterli bir nedendir. O büyük beyni, ona bir yanl??l?k sonucu verilmiÅŸtir.

Svako je genijalac. Me?utim ako prosu?uješ ribu na osnovu njene sposobnosti da se penje uz drvo ona ?e ceo život provesti u ube?enju da je glupa.

Ognuno è un genio. Ma se si giudica un pesce dalla sua abilità di arrampicarsi sugli alberi lui passerà tutta la sua vita a credersi stupido.

Don't judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree.

Be a voice, not an echo.

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.