Quotes About Uniqueness

For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

There is no such thing as a perfect name.

Remember, you're unique. And so is everyone else.

Mom used to tell me not to worry when people didn't get me. People throw rocks at things that shine - from the mixed up files of Tilly Adam's journal

Just because you've never felt like you fit in doesn't mean anything's wrong with you. It means you haven't found your place yet.

Coloring all of us with the same pen then?

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

You are different. That does not make you less.

Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.

What do we have left?" "Persons," I said quietly. "I don't understand," Susan said. "As a whole, people suck," I replied. "But a person can be extraordinary.

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

I never met a normal person and neither have you.

Some people blamed his oddities on his dyslexia, which was so severe that one giddy pediatrician called it a gift: While he might never learn how to spell or read better than the average fourth grader, he'd always see things the rest of us couldn't.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty or twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.

Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.

A common mistake in strategy is to choose the same core competences as everyone else in your industry.

Instead of competing to be the best, companies can—and should—compete to be unique. This concept is all about value.

No em clavis un sermó; els sermons són desoladors perquè son un ranxo, igual per a tothom, quan cada u sent el seu mal com a únic i intransferible.

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

She always had that look about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Places all have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.