Quotes About Uniqueness

I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone.

Tendo a non fare molto caso alle altre persone – l'ho già detto in precedenza, è uno dei miei difetti più gravi – e nelle rare occasioni in cui metto la testa fuori dal guscio e do una bella occhiata, quello che mi colpisce in modo strabiliante non è quanto siano diversi da me, ma quanto siano simili, malgrado tutto.

ByÅ'em zawsze wyró?niajÄ…cym siÄ™ nikim, którego bezwzglÄ™dnym ?yczeniem byÅ'o sta? siÄ™ niewyró?niajÄ…cym siÄ™ kimÅ›.

One reason for not writing a lost-in-the-funhouse story is that either everybody's felt what Ambrose feels, in which case it goes without saying, or else no normal person feels such things, in which case Ambrose is a freak.

We're none of us normal. Not in this fucking country.

Ein Junge, der bereit war, neue Menschen kennenzulernen. Ein Junge, der neue Abenteuer erleben wollte. Und vor allem: ein Junge der stolz darauf war, anders zu sein.

One of the great advances of our generation has been the exposure of child abuse. We have come to see that our prevailing rules for raising children shame and violate their uniqueness and their dignity. Such rules have been a part of our emotional endarkenment. Alice Miller has shown with painful clarity how our current parenting rules have aimed at making the child fit the projected image of the parent. They have also enforced the idealization of parents by the wounded child.

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We're elements in a process that began in the dim past and will develop through who knows what kind of future.

He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a compensatory fashion, he was also free from certain other laws more commonly in force.

I have many names, but only one nature

Las decisiones clave que hagas, aparte de tu talento natural, te separarán de los demás que sólo tengan talento.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess." Your goal should be to waste as little of your life as possible. As former MLB catcher Jim Sundberg says, "Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.

Creativity is being able to see what everybody else has seen and think what nobody else has thought so you can do what nobody else has done.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Jim Sundberg says, "Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.

John C. Maxwell

No one will ever understand the beautiful complexity of my mind.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw.

Happy birthday to someone who wasn't welcomed into the world via tweet or status update.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

When god created the horse, he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thy shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou shalt fly without wings, and conquer without sword; oh horse.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

When it comes to bad bi...es I'm the last of a dying breed.