Quotes About Uniqueness

What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.

That's the world that matters. The world where people glitter like diamonds with a million facets. Where people are like pearls, luminous as nacre on the surface but each with a speck that would destroy it if you were looking only for specks.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.

Humans are great storytellers. That's what separates us from every other species.

You can't see yourself all over. But I can. Part of you is honey, part of you is copper, some of you is gold--

The American Negro is a unique creation; he has no counterpart anywhere, and no predecessors.

All men, clearly, are primitive, but it can be doubted that that all men are primitive in the same way

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of mediocrity.

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

When there are a dozen Babe Ruths, there are none.

I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' which is cool, which is uncharted territory for your boy. It's nice to be called by your name when you're not in character.

I am always updating and coming up with something fresh, whether it's a colour, a trend, or a design, as my uncle always taught me to be unique and different.

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

My style statement is to be myself! Because if you try to imitate someone else, you will end up feeling uncomfortable.

Life is about embracing the things that make you different, which is often an uncomfortable thing to do.

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

I love being unconventional because that's the reason I stand out.

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

One of the big, most underlying messages for me is celebrating beauty that is not typical.

Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.

There is always an underlying spirit of invention at Nike - we love to create something that has never before existed. And not just new for the sake of new - it has to be better.

I've always known my dad is a one-off and his own person. But I feel that underneath he has always loved me.