Quotes About Uniqueness

I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy." "No?" "I do it because I'm awesome.

Vin isn't…like other women." Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly. "I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

we're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most.

People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.

It turned out that strange little girls grow up to be strange young women.

In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren't like "everyone else," and after a while Tress figured that the group "everyone else" must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.

Standing out like a punk guitarist in a mariachi band.

I'm not odd! I'm beautiful and articulate

Do not dismiss your own talents because you envy those of another.

I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy." "No?" "I do it because I'm awesome.

Look close at a given person, and you'd see their uniqueness—see that they didn't quite match whatever broad category you'd first put them in.

It's okay. I'm a rhinoceros astronaut.

Es el intelecto del genio lo que reverenciamos? [...] Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que lo crees antes que nadie. No es la belleza lo que admiramos, ni la fuerza del intelecto, ni la inventiva, ni la estética, ni la capacidad misma. El mayor talento que creemos que puede tener un hombre debe ser la novedad.

Do not deny your own talents simply because you envy another's.

Dabbid wasn't a mistake. He could make mistakes. Then he was stupid. But not always. He couldn't think fast like others. But that made him different, not stupid. Stupid was a choice.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

Your father never fit in here either. He never fit in anywhere. It's part of what I like about him." Troubled

All people are foolish, just in different ways

You don't fit in, but you're not broken. You're just different. And they're going to need you someday. I promise it.

But we don't. Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn't matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.