Quotes About Uniqueness

God has loved us as if there is only one of us

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

They are afraid to read out loud, fearful of being thought stupid or foolish or — what? I ask them. Girlish? Boring, says one Megan. (Which Megan? I can't remember.) This is a terrible fear, I know — this fear of not being interesting — of being trivial, not special. It is almost as great, I think, as their fear of standing out and being special.

Normal is a piece of string. What's normal for one person is off the chart for another.

There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.

When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Different is better than better. Different doesn't try to turn you into something else. Different allows you to highlight the singular traits you already have within you. You aren't necessarily better than your competition. But you are already different.

Who you are is the greatest differentiator you've ever had.

Throughout your career, you will compete against people who are more established, more famous, more connected, more specialized. But they can't be you. They can't capture your highest distinct value. Only you have you.

Today, every piece of your communication faces three enemies: distraction, competition, and commoditization.

You will never rise to your greatest potential by being all things to all people.

To become more fascinating, you don't have to change who you are. You have to become more of who you are.

Here's your choice: Spend a lot of time and money in pursuit of better. Or find what makes you different, and then do it on purpose.

Instead of trying to outdo your competition, focus on what makes you different. The goal is to find where you and your product diverge from standard expectations.

If you want to increase perceived value for you and your work, you need to focus on who you are, rather than what you do.

You will learn that living with ASD can have many challenges, but also great rewards that are uniquely yours to cherish.

If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Hrabia de G., typowy bohater Dalego, zwyk? mawia?:bale organizuje si? dla tych, których si? nie zaprasza. (...) Jajko na talerzu bez talerza na balu bez Dalego - to Dali.

Oslové by cht?li, abych dodržoval rady, které vyhlašuji pro ostatní. To je nemožné, já jsem totiž zcela odlišný.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before. ROGER EBERT

The Goal Is to Break Out, Not Blend In There are few times in your life when it isn't too melodramatic to say your destiny hangs on the impression you make.

Amigo mío, dado el abismo que separa todas tus experiencias de todas las mías, lo más cerca que te puedo situar de ese sabor tan único es decirte que los libros, así, por término medio, saben a lo mismo que huele el café