Quotes About Uniqueness

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

What I wanted was the tiniest thing in the world: to be like everyone else.

Stop acting like a Terran. Be a Hellan.

Alexei didn't bustle; he wore his madness like a badge.

We love you because you are you." "It is OK to like yourself." "Don't measure yourself by what others accomplish.

Why "one size fits all" development methodologies don't work

Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

God doesn't repeat himself

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

I love books about freaks, because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.

How did you know it was me?' I have to ask. 'The way you looked at me,' she says, 'It couldn't have been anyone else.

Whatever everyone else was not, I was willing to be.

The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

There's truly a story on every corner. But still might be a shock, to realize you are just one story walking among millions

It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet.

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.

anyone can do more, but it will be our thing to do just one.

I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little.

Hi. I'm Thom. With an 'h'. I tell him, I'm Gnorah. With a 'g'. The 'g' is silent. Like 'gnome.' Really? Thom says. No, not really. I have an 'h' too. At the end. Used to be just N-O-R-A but when I had the H legally added to my name after my dad failed to sign up Norah Jones when he had the chance. I don't like him to forget these things easily.