Quotes About Uniqueness

she's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Do your thing & I shall know you.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

As to what are called the masses, and common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Every Individual has a madness in himself which is unique, incomparable, which drives him into this world. And if two people like each other's madness its called LOVE and if not, its called HATE. Never MIND!"

One of the most fascinating aspect of humans is their 'object of fascination' which makes them remarkably unique from each other!

The compulsion to remain beautiful forever has made women more uglier than ever. Remember its not about imbibing other cultures but accepting one's own nature is what makes one more graceful! Relish in your uniqueness!

What makes each of US unique is our ability to connect emotionally at varied degrees, thus making it impossible to achieve a common objective

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special? It doesn't.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

Whatever my accomplishments, all of things I loved were rooted in the dreams and goals I had as a child ... and in the ways I had managed to fulfill almost all of them. My uniqueness, I realized, came in the specifics of all the dreams -from incredibly meaningful to decidedly quirky- that defined my 46 years of life.

Here in these circuses and carnivals we all love each other with our oddities and queernesses.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth.

No self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter, and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client

In my view there is something essentially special, after all, about human beings. We were the first species on Earth to combine a cognitive function and an effective opposable appendage (the thumb), so we were able to create technology that would extend our own horizons. No other species on Earth has accomplished this.