Quotes About Uniqueness

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

I think … you know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike?" She nods. "Well, I don't think that's true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike … and I think a lot of people are alike too.

Redbeard pirate look only worked for Ed Sheeran because he was Ed Sheeran.

weirdness was the coin of the realm in San Francisco.

a algunas personas las cosas les van mejor porque hacen las cosas de un modo diferente

There are certain things that you can do, or learn to do, that can make you extraordinarily valuable to yourself and to others. Your job is to identify your special areas of uniqueness and then to commit yourself to becoming very, very good in those areas. Increase

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?

Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

When one studies something characteristic of a people it is wise to look at its best side, at least if one wants to learn anything. Ugly things are ugly in much the same way the world over. Only the best can teach us, and the best of anything is individual. Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, too different from what others think of as normal.

Why should we expect her to be exactly like ourselves? Lucia went on. How can we be sure that our way is better than any other from A Fair Barbarian

Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.

and it is these differences that are classified as the particular

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

Being herself was extraordinary enough

Distinguishing Marks Every land has its distinguishing mark. Particular to Thessaly are horsemanship and horses; what marks a Spartan is war's season; Media has its tables with their dishes; hair marks the Celts, the Assyrians have beards. But the marks that distinguish Athens are Mankind and the Word.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Why is it that everyone who's had a baby acts like they're the only one who ever has?

Handbags are not important anymore," Connie admonished her. "It said so in Vogue. Right now it's all about having something no one else possesses. It's about the one of a kind. The unique.

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

Species differ - but are often not very different. Only humans have human minds. But believing that only humans have minds is like believing that because only humans have human skeletons, only humans have skeletons.

I see many colors. They smell many scents. Our experience isn't the same. But it's comparably vivid.

Nietzsche mourns the loss of "man's belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplace-ability in the scheme of existence." For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.