Quotes About Uniqueness

They realize they are intense, complex, and driven, but they have been taught that their strong personalities are perceived as excessive, too different from the norm, and consequently wrong. In a culture that often equates different with wrong, it's inevitable that gifted adults point a critical finger

In many ways, commonplace ratings such as "normal/abnormal" and "acceptable/unacceptable" hamper the gifted person who requires not either/or dichotomies but an accepting,

gifted children perceive the world in fundamentally different ways

When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

What's your name?" "Cassawoof," she said with pride. "Nice name! I'm Simon.

And by the DODO, I mean me.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.

Roses have no reason to envy daisies.

Weeds blend in; roses stand out.

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Some say there's no magic formula. I say there is. It's just that the magic is different for everyone.

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.

Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know.

But if everyone was made to look perfect, then no one would be special because being special meant being different, by offering something that wasn't on offer elsewhere.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise. Keep your head down. Keep your stamina. Keep swimming...

Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.

We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.