Quotes About Uniqueness

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Yes I am a little bit crazy. But the rest of the human race is mad.

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Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Strictly speaking, what one life sees no other can. Every individual, whether person, nation, or epoch, is an organ, for which there can be no substitute, constructed for the apprehension of truth.…

The right to be different, whether by choice or necessity, is our greatest right as human beings. And dealing with differences is the greatest of all human challenges. People react anxiously and fearfully to differences. We learn to hate, glorify, deny, exaggerate, or eradicate a difference.

The right to be different, whether by choice or necessity, is our greatest right as human beings. And dealing with differences is the greatest of all human challenges. People react anxiously and fearfully to differences. We learn to hate, glorify, deny, exaggerate, or eradicate a difference. Or we try to get comfortable by shaming the different person or group.

She discovered that being 'ordinary' wasn't a terrible failure but rather a centering human experience. Perhaps our courage to embrace our ordinariness (along with our uniqueness) is one of the true keys to happiness in our relationships - including the relationship with our own self.

what we believe is most shameful and unique about ourselves is often what is most human and universal

If you want to win her hand, Let the maiden understand That she's not the only pebble on the beach.

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

enough to the Stars and Stripes and different enough from

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

there is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: They discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it.

when a rose stands alone, thriving where no others thrive, a rare bouquet of one still strong, still alive.... and I smile...

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

we are all distinct—what will work for one person may not work for another; this variation between individuals is perhaps the most fundamental of evolutionary observations.

We are encouraged to believe in our dreams, but we are assumed to dream in the same limited palette as everyone else. We are to view ourselves as unique snowflakes only as it facilitates more efficiently melting ourselves into bottled spring water.