Quotes About Uniqueness

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Each man's soul is his genius.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.