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Quotes About Uniqueness

Am I cured?" "No. 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.
~ Paulo Coelho
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
~ Paulo Coelho
Each arrow flies differently. You can shoot a thousand arrows and each one will follow a different trajectory: that is the way of the bow.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every person on earth has a gift, he began. In some, the gift manifests itself spontaneously; others have to work to discover what it is.
~ Paulo Coelho
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.
~ Paulo Coelho
Lo que perturba es el riesgo de ser diferente, y el horror de ser igual...
~ Paulo Coelho
Everything and everybody is the same; this is the mystery and the end.
~ Paulo Coelho
That there is no need for iron to be the same as copper, or copper the same as gold. Each preforms its own exact function as a unique being, and everything would be a symphony of peace
~ Paulo Coelho
We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.
~ Paulo Coelho
Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds.
~ Paulo Coelho
This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.
~ Pearl S. Buck
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are, or who anyone else is, either. Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
~ Pema Chodron
You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.
~ Patricia Richardson
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
~ John Dewey
Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.
~ Amy Lee
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
~ Georges Seurat
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
~ Richard Avedon
When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.
~ Tracey Emin
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
~ Chris Brown
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
~ Salvador Dali
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
~ Jean Cocteau
Art = a mad search for individualism.
~ Paul Gauguin