Quotes About Uniqueness

The nail that sticks out the farthest is hit the hardest.

1. What makes your family unique?

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

No humans have ever lived as we do.

You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.

In a big company, you can do what all the other big companies are doing. But a startup can't do what all the other startups do.

No flower is quite like another of the same species. On a single bush one is constantly surprised by the remarkable character shown by each individual rose. But from the house all one sees is a garden, which is all there is to it anyway in the long run.

as Henry James had said in a letter to a do-gooding friend, "Only don't, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another's, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own.

every trip is unique.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real I to reveal itself.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it...You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness

What's so special about me? There isn't anything special about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet and here's the mystery of life - I can't think of anything else.