Quotes About Uniqueness

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself. Strength and reflexes were only part of it—Shay simply knew that she was special, and so she was. Everyone else was just wallpaper

The features that we take from our parents are the things that make us different. A big nose, thin lips, high forehead—all the things that the operation takes away.

Stevie can't, I imagine. Stevie wouldn't really want to. She would always dress up as flamboyantly as possible when she went out, so she'd be noticed. She's a different kind of person than I am. People are appreciating me for the reasons I want to be appreciated for, and not for my chiffon gown. [Laughs]

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

Delivering unique creativity is hardest of all, because not only do you have to have insight, but you also need to be passionate enough to risk the rejection that delivering a solution can bring. You must ship.

Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.

Everything gets easier when you walk away from the hubris of everyone. Your work is not for everyone. It's only for those who signed up for the journey.

For the frequent user, the impact of a cooler, better, easier-to-use input device is profound – so profound that many users are happy to proselytize to their peers. More sneezing of a Purple Cow.

Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad of interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.   —David Mamet

The mass market is dying. There is no longer one best song or one best kind of coffee. Now there are a million micromarkets, but each micromarket still has a best.

You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.

Scarcity, as we've seen, is the secret to value. If there wasn't a Dip, there'd be no scarcity.

If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you'll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

Trying to appeal to everyone is almost sure to fail, for the simple reason that everyone wants something different!

If you seek to become indispensable, a similar question is worth asking: "Where do you put the fear?" What separates a linchpin from an ordinary person is the answer to this question.

Plenty of people are good at what you do. Very good at it. Perhaps as good at it as you are.

Sooner or later, each of us becomes (for a while) the kind of person who believes in the reptile people that control the earth. We're seeking our own little pocket of uniqueness.

Oamenii diferi?i vor lucruri diferite.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

The Bhagavad-Gita says, "It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else's perfectly." Consider the people who have found their voice and made a real impact: their paths always differ, but their practices overlap in many ways.