Quotes About Uniqueness

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.