Quotes About Uniqueness

Don't try to make comparisons. By whose standards do we compare?

Mother," Meg pursued. "Charles says I'm not one thing or the other, not flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." "Oh for crying out loud," Calvin said, "you're Meg, aren't you? Come on and let's go for a walk.

Death is the most ordinary thing in the world, and so is birth. Someone is being born at this very moment. Someone is dying. Ordinary, and yet completely extraordinary. The marvel of having my babies is something I will never forget. The feeling of staggering uniqueness I had at the death of my father, the death of several close friends, was very different, but equally acute. Death may be an ordinary, everyday affair, but it is not a statistic. It is something that happens to people.

But that's exactly what we have on Camazotz. Complete equality. Everybody exactly alike. For a moment her brain reeled with confusion. Then came a moment of blazing truth. No! she cried triumphantly. Like and equal are not the same thing at all!...Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Houses, like people, have their own peculiarities.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

his becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.

The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

Don't be like everyone else and pawn your dreams for pennies, because they'll never give you what it's truly worth.

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

There is no secret ingredient

If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.

Sometimes if you want to stand out, you at first have to blend in.

What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.

A company builds its success and becomes popular with its unique appearance and identity

There can never be someone greater at being you than you.

Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride.

Create your own out of the box thinking, create your own box.

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

No matter how different you are, your idea is, your art, your writing, your product, your concept, show it to the world. Just do it. Show who you are to the world. This is what you are here to do.