Quotes About Uniqueness

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

that is his head, containing a brain of a different brand than that of the synthetic jellies preserved in the skulls around him

and in the end the logical thing would be to give up and I would give up if I were laboring for a reader today, but as there is in the world not a single human who can speak my language; or, more simply, not a single human who can speak; or, even more simply, not a single human; I must think only of myself, of that force which urges me to express myself. I repeat: there is something I know, there is something I know, there is something...

Let us not look for the soul of Russia in the Russian novel: let us look for the individual genius. Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame—and not at the faces of other people looking at the frame.

Ben Sebastian'?m ya da Sebastian ben ya da belki biz ikimiz ikimizin de tan?mad??? bir ba?kas?y?z.

The true measure of genius is in what measure the world he has created is his own, one that has not been here before him (at least, here, in literature) and, even more important, how plausible he has succeeded in making it.

When you read Turgenev, you know you are reading Turgenev. When you read Tolstoy, you read just because you cannot stop.

Never use the competition as a benchmark

Value without innovation tends to focus on value creation on an incremental scale, something that improves value but is not sufficient to make you stand out in the marketplace.

your offering needs to stand out as never before.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

I'm not exactly a half-breed." Wraith said. "More of a freak of nature. But my mate is fangy, so my lips are sealed.

Nothing works for everybody.

Kids aren't bonsai. Maybe instead of trying to make them beautiful to the rest of the world, you should just love them and let them grow.

Casi había olvidado el dolor que se siente por dentro cuando es tan evidente que tú y yo no somos iguales.

Tú no eres un error. Eres una criatura extraordinaria, Fenris, seas lo que seas'' Ronna

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, was growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee.

Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair.

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

Louise? Oh, you would remember. She doesn't look like anyone else. Her hair is black like Myra's, but perfectly straight like an Oriental's, and she wears it in a Buster Brown.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.