Quotes About Uniqueness

Whistling as you walk through the woods is a form of art, but you're not doing it hoping a squirrel will applaud.

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. If your micromarket is "organic markets in Tulsa," then that's your world. And being the best in that world is the place to be.

Each person has a story in his or her head, a narrative used to navigate the world. The extraordinary thing is that every person's narrative is different.

The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone. It will lead to compromises and generalizations. Begin instead with the smallest viable market. What's the minimum number of people you would need to influence to make it worth the effort?

La razón por la que cuesta tanto seguir al líder es ésta: el líder es el líder porque hizo algo extraordinario. Y esa cosa extraordinaria ya está hecha. Ya no tiene nada de extraordinaria cuando la hacen los demás.

Now, the only way to grow is to stand out, to create something worth talking about, to treat people with respect and to have them spread the word.

It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk," she says, shaking her hips like she's doing some African dance. Kids bust out laughing. "To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like anybody else's idea of beauty." For a minute

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.

Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.

I know she's weird. Her friends know she's weird. And we all accept it because she's weird, but also amazing.

Star calls to star: "Here I am, who is like me?" Tree calls to tree: "I am I, who knows me?

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!

I'm a freak with power.

Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)

You have some severe mental problem I need to be aware of, don't you? (Shahara) Just because I eat babies for breakfast and pick my teeth with their bones doesn't mean I'm nuts. (Syn) Any other weird habits I should be aware of? (Shahara) Just my need to dance naked in the streets under the light of a full moon. (Syn)

Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn) You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)

Princess, you could never be that. You are unique to me. (Zarek) Am I your rose? (Astrid) Yes, you are my rose. There is only one of you in all the millions of planets and stars. (Zarek)

Storm, Rain, and Sunshine, huh? (Talon) My mother's doing. I'm just glad she stopped at three. I was told the next one would have been named Cloudy Day. (Sunshine)

Xenon? What kind of name is that?" – Nick "The only kind I answer to." – Xenon "Don't eat the help, X. We need him." – Caleb

Menoceus wants his father. Bob is crying because he wants his mother to stop calling him that crap-ass name. It's all right Bob. Daddy's got you now. I'm saving you fromMommy's bad naming taste. I'd be crying, too, if my mom named me after an idiot. Menoeceus is a great name. For an old man or a feminine hygeine product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won't be something that sounds like meningitis.

And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I'm a Toyota. You're a Lamborghini.(Channon)

I'm not people, I only eat them.