Quotes About Uniqueness

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms.

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!

I is who I is.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.