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Quotes About Uniqueness

Strategy is about making choices; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
~ Michael E. Porter
My name is Bastian," said the boy. "Bastian Balthazar Bux." "That's a rather odd name," the man grumbled. "All those Bs. Oh well, you can't help it. You didn't choose it. My name is Carl Conrad Coreander.
~ Michael Ende
Wirklich zuhören können nur ganz wenige Menschen. Und so wie Momo sich aufs Zuhören verstand, war es ganz und gar einmalig.
~ Michael Ende
Trotzdem war etwas besonderes an ihr, nur konnte Lenchen nicht gleich darauf kommen, was es war. Doch dann bemerkte sie es: Die Fee hatte sechs Finger an jeder Hand. Mach dir nichts draus, sagte Franziska Fragezeichen, die Lenchens Blick bemerkt hatte, bei uns Feen ist immer irgendetwas ein bisschen anders als bei gewöhnlichen Menschen. Sonst wären wir ja keine Feen. Das verstehst du doch?
~ Michael Ende
Burry did not think investing could be reduced to a formula or learned from any one role model. The more he studied Buffett, the less he thought Buffett could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. "If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are," Burry said. "At one point I recognized
~ Michael Lewis
all the other Giants players were X's or O's. Lawrence was the only one who had a number: fifty-six. He was a little
~ Michael Lewis
says. "There's only one Moses, but I'm not sure there's a Moses here." But Howard Mudd, who coached the Chargers' offensive line at the time, an
~ Michael Lewis
Maybe the problem with "the box" is that it is singular.
~ Michael Pollan
There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.
~ Michael Buble
I learned a lot about what I do with my craft, how I present my music. A lot of things about him were very much an influence on me and everybody else. Once you get in that fold and you're around it, you get to experience something that I don't think we'll ever see again. There will never be anybody like Frank Sinatra. Ever.
~ Paul Anka
You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
~ Kurt Elling
Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.
~ Mr. T
I don't try to copy anybody - I mean, I'm not trying to become another Sinatra. I merely sing the way I speak.
~ Roddy Llewellyn
It's OK if people say I sound like Frank Sinatra. I just don't want them to think I am Frank Sinatra.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
There's only one Sinatra. But don't forget that there's only one Sinatra Jr., too.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.
~ Howard Gardner
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
~ Branford Marsalis
I've always been Carlos Vela - sincere, original and true to myself.
~ Carlos Vela
We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.
~ Judith Durham
You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
It's strange because pandan cake isn't hard to make but yet it can only be bought in Singapore.
~ Zhao Wei
Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.
~ Leon Russell
I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
~ Chris Stapleton
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
~ Al Stewart