Quotes About Uniqueness

All children are really orphans. At heart, a child has nothing to do with its parents, its background, its last name, its gender, its family trade. It is a brand-new person, and it is born with the only legacy that all individuals inherit when they open their eyes in this world: the inalienable right to be free.

When you are born and put into your crib, the whole world sticks their heads over the tops of the bars. They give you a name and they have all sorts of different ideas about you. … But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours.

When you are genuinely being your true self, you need no words of explanation. You just are.

The more we awaken to the beauty of this dance being patterned throughout our lives and the uniqueness of our own personal dance step with the divine, the more miraculously our lives flow.

You need to capture that essence, the part of you that makes you special, the part of you that makes you sing.

No one will know who you're supposed to be," Ben warned. "No one ever does," said Claude.

Fitting in and being normal doesn't exist; not for a few years in the middle.

One is the loneliest number

if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

It never occurred to me that others had done this before me.

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.

Brain waves are like personal handwriting.

I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. – JONY IVE

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

My beauty comes from having my own style, living my own way and knowing my own mind.