Quotes About Uniqueness

Where's your will to be weird?

Where's your will to be weird?

My father was a Filipino contortionist who was known as the Manilla Folder.

I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.

Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?

I don't think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It's not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It's not just being outside when they're all inside. I used to be inside. I think there's a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they're happening which isn't normal.

That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes?

There's nothing less exciting than being thought of as part of a class of beings that are all the same," I said. "You're treating me as a thing.

Só vi um, o Jõe Bexiguento, sobrechamado o Alpercatas: esse era homem de estranhez em muitos seus costumes

Naquele lugar existia uma mulher, por nome Maria Mutema, pessoa igual às outras, sem nenhuma diversidade.

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

There's nothing wrong with having a different way of learning. What's wrong is when people blame you for it.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Uniqueness and independence are clearly not synonyms in the mind of Benedict of Nursia. Uniqueness and responsibility go hand in hand in Benedictine spirituality. By all means I should be who I am and have what I need, but you have a claim on those gifts. Those gifts were given to me so much for your sake as for my own. The community does not exist to make me possible. Together we exist to make the gospel possible.

I was just thinking that I started off OK," Jo said. "There wasn't anything different or wrong with me when I was born. I wasn't inherently bad or freakish.

You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you.

Only by competing to be unique can an organization achieve sustained, superior performance.

For Porter, strategic competition means choosing a path different from that of others. Instead of competing to be the best, companies can—and should—compete to be unique.

Strategic competition means choosing a path different from that of others.

Competing to be unique is unlike warfare in that one company's success does not require its rivals to fail. It is unlike competition in sports because every company can chose to invent its own game. A better analogy than war or sports might be the performing arts.

But those are your fingerprints, babe.