Quotes About Uniqueness

The worldly scope and scale of your unique mission is irrelevant; what matters is that you embrace the role that is especially suited to you.

Why did nature not ask my advice about my features?

My socks may not match, but my feet are always warm.

There is a sense of empowerment and confidence in the act of creation that cannot be achieved by copying.

We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence.

We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

Ich bin meine Gattung, bin ohne Norm, ohne Gesetz, ohne Muster und dergleichen.

You are not "inferior." You are not "superior." You are simply "You.

modern man's anxiety and insecurity stemmed from a lack of self-realization, and that inner security can only be found "in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.

You" as a personality are not in competition with any other personality simply because there is not another person on the face of the earth like you, or in your particular class. You are an individual. You are unique. You are not "like" any other person and can never become "like" any other person. You are not "supposed" to be like any other person and no other person is "supposed" to be like you.

in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

novels, like racists, tend to be the same wherever you turn," writes William Giraldi,

Treba da zapazimo ?ovjeka, da ga razlikujemo od ostalih, svako ima nešto svoje, i drago mu je ako se baš to posebno primijeti.

Two genuinely human thoughts are always different, just as two men's palms are." "What's a genuinely human thought?" "One that's usually not told to anyone.

You cut the jacket to fit the person, you do not cut the person to fit the jacket. Do not imitate the strategies of your competitors or blindly implement industry best practices. The Leader of an organization must analyze the situation and customize the business plans to fit the organization's position.

I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you got?

You're not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.

Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. "How can I just have this one life?

And it was true that if you categorized people by which Disney character they were, then Jonah would always be Bambi. Motherless, graceful, unobtrusive. Ethan--Jiminy Cricket, the annoying little conscience... just look at Ash. In the Disney hierarchy she was Snow White... He paused to wonder which Disney character Jules was, and realized that Disney did not make women or girls or woodland animals that were like her.