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Quotes About Uniqueness

Bottom line: people with ADD have higher levels of creative thinking than those without.
~ Jonathan Mooney
As documented in two important books, Neurodiversity by Thomas Armstrong and The Power of Different by
~ Jonathan Mooney
We are all only temporarily able bodies and minds. Statistically, what have been labeled mental and physical "abnormalities" or disabilities are essential to the human condition, are in fact the human condition.
~ Jonathan Mooney
When a human being makes many coins in a single mint, they all come out the same. God makes every human being in the same image, His image, yet they all emerge different.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.
~ Jonathan Safran
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It chuckled. "Why do you think I'm chatting with you?
~ Jonathan Stroud
Woman, man, mole, maggot – they're all the same, when all's said and done, except for slight variations in cognitive ability.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Your face is never the same twice,' Jakob had said. 'Er—that's a compliment!' he added hastily, when Kitty glowered at him.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Everyone's got a different story.
~ Emma Donoghue
You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up
~ Emma Holly
chi siamo, che cosa fa sì che siamo noi e nessun altro.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
Every train track is different
~ English proverb
Every train track is different......Jum bob was here
~ English proverb
No fim de contas, o que somos, o que é cada um de nós senão uma combinatória, diferente e única, de experiência, de leituras, de imaginações?" - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
una persona en un millón vive a la altura de lo mejor que hay en ella. La
~ Eric Butterworth
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.
~ Eric Chaisson
Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me.
~ Eric Clapton
population thinking,' Kennesaw. A pity you never learned to apply those methods. Instead, you made the classic mistake of categorizing people into abstract types instead of recognizing their concrete variations
~ Eric Flint
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
~ Eric Hoffer
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
~ Eric Hoffer
But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.
~ Eric Linklater
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
~ Eric R. Kandel
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
~ Eric Schmidt