Quotes About Uniqueness

It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere,' said my father.

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.

Onun ya?ad??? yerde ya?amak, onun gibi ya?amak de?ildi.

Mon père disait qu'il ne faut jamais comparer les gens, chaque personne est différente, l'important est de trouver la différence qui vous convient le mieux. Cléa était ma différence.

a monologue defines its author as reliably as his fingerprints.

La mejor forma de defenderte, es no parecerte al ellos

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

This can be both a blessing and a curse. You are blessed with a wonderfully unique filter but cursed with a systematic inability to understand anybody else's.

Focus on each person's strengths and manage around his weaknesses. Don't try to fix the weaknesses. Don't try to perfect each person. Instead do everything you can to help each person cultivate his talents. Help each person become more of who he already is.

that all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.

Define the outcomes you want from your team and its members, and then look for each person's strength signs to figure out how each person can reach those outcomes most efficiently, most amazingly, most creatively, and most joyfully. The moment you realize you're in the outcomes business is the moment you turn each person's uniqueness from a bug into a feature.

Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful.

A close scrutiny of excellence, however, reveals that our edge—our particular genius—is precise. We each have specific areas where we consistently stand out, where we can do things, see things, understand things, and learn things better and faster than ten thousand other people can.

the only truth is your own. The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares.

As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it's even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others.

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

There is never only one, of anyone

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

there was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.

She had her reasons. Not that they were ever the same as anybody else's reasons. She was completely ruthless in that way.