Quotes About Uniqueness

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

And that you alone, among the men whom you do not recognize as your brothers- for you have said so, observed Villefort, in a tone that faltered somewhat- you alone are perfect.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.

Looking back century by century to remotest Antiquity, I see nothing that resembles what I see before me.

America the only country in which the starting-point of a great people has been clearly observable

You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.

That was when I came to understand that freaks of nature and ordinary people had no business being together.

Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.

Her mother warned that being different could cause grief, for men often destroyed what they didn't understand.

108I was a rat perhaps, but never a mouse.

am i insane asked alice yes, but all the best people are replied her father

Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation…subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which nobody around them listened to…

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Like snowflakes, none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.

All womens not alike, Tobias, she say. Believe it or not. Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world.

Why you like this, huh? Why you always think you have to do things your own way? I ast your mama bout it one time, while you was in jail. What she say? ast Sofia. She say you think your way as good as anybody else's. Plus, it yours. Sofia laugh.

each of us has knowledge of how to live life differently that no one taught us, and that we can find this knowledge inside ourselves and put it to use.

The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it;

what is good is integral to itself. That is also why it is not worthwhile to change yourself, your hair or skin or eyes. What is integral to you will always be superior to what is tacked on, simply because it is yours.