Quotes About Uniqueness

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write.

I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest.

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

Always you were drawn to the composite creatures, the broken and reassembled, for that is what you are.

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all.

I think you know if you're different, he ventured. I think you know if you're gifted. How could you not? You know if you feel set apart, said Nanny, but who doesn't feel that? Maybe we're all gifted. We just don't know it.

We won't make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people's habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

But it doesn't matter what we think a person (or ourselves) should be able to do - what matter is only what works for each individual.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is that we're more like other people than we suppose and less like other people than we suppose.

I used to think I was pretty typical, but now I see that I'm extreme. I can't judge people according to what works for me.

Everyone's happiness project is unique.

A Rebel on a mission is a force of nature, a superstar. No need for checklists, for routines, rules, or habits to get things done. The need to find a cause, something to truly believe in and fight for, is vital. The inner belief is so strong, it will withstand any external pressure. A Rebel believes in his/her own uniqueness, and even superiority. There's certainly an aspect of arrogance. But if Rebels find the cause, then that's their master.

We] often learn more from one person's idiosyncratic experiences than [we] do from scientific studies or philosophical treatises.

There is a part of everything that remains unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire or that tree until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire.

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

Leur manière de vivre - qui n'était pas celle des autres - déplaisait. Ils devinrent suspects; et même inspiraient une vague terreur.

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

Les vraies femmes de lettres sont des phénomènes. Leur rareté fait leur prix.

everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and a scholar and had not minded.