Quotes About Uniqueness

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

Leibniz is proposing a strange inversion of what we normally mean when we describe a man as distinguished, or unique. Normally when we say these things, we mean that the man himself stands out from a crowd in some way. But Leibniz is saying that such a man's uniqueness is rooted in his ability to perceive the rest of the universe with unusual clarity—to distinguish one thing from another more effectively than ordinary souls." Roger

But the only feature of the view that ever changed was the signatures of foam deposited on the beach by the waves. Each breaker, she supposed, was as unique as a human soul. Each made its own runup onto the shore, being the very embodiment of vigor and power at the start, but each slowed, spread thin, faltered, dissolved into a hissing ribbon of grey foam and got buried underneath the next.

What makes one man's life more interesting than another's? In general, I should say that we find unpredictable or novel things more interesting.

Must you know that yours will be the "better" picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be "better" than an iris in order to justify it's existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

Because equality is sameness—and the last thing the world needs is sameness.

Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend.

Like the microscopic strands of DNA that predetermine the identity of a macroscopic species and the unique propertires of its members, the modern look and feel of the cosmos was writ in the fabric of its earliest moments, and carried relentlessly through time and space. We feel it when we look up. We feel it when we look down. We feel it when we look within.

The universe has never made one of anything, so why would there even be one of itself?

We are, each of us, a little Universe

Earth's Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size in the sky—a coincidence not shared by any other planet–moon combination in the solar system

if everything you have learned is what everyone else knows, no one will ever beat a path to your door.

Each of us, for all practical purposes, is unique in the universe—now and forever. Being alive is the time to celebrate being alive—every waking moment. Along the way, why not strive to make the world a better place today than yesterday, simply for the privilege of having lived in it.

Beauty is common but what's rare is a great energy and outlook on life.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

That's a wonderful story." "He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.

Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.