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Quotes About Uniqueness

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.
~ Mickey Rooney
Maybe I dance to a different drum, but I get the job done well. I need to be accommodated, not managed.
~ Unknown
Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Cada hombre es un mundo, Gertrudis. —Y cada mujer, una luna, ¿no es eso, don Juan?
~ Miguel de Unamuno
After each episode of flow a person becomes more of a unique individual, less predictable, possessed of rarer skills.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Differentiation implies a movement toward uniqueness, toward separating oneself from others. Integration refers to its opposite: a union with other people, with ideas and entities beyond the self. A complex self is one that succeeds in combining these opposite tendencies.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Individuals who depart from the norms—heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals—look for different things in life than most others do.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Most events in consciousness are built from culturally defined contents as well as from personal meanings developed throughout an individual's life. Thus, two persons can never be expected to have the same experience, and the farther apart in time and place they are, the more the details of the two experiences will differ.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Most people see themselves as either better than they really are or worse than they really are, with an imbalanced focus on the positive or the negative. Humility means we see ourselves accurately, accept the way we have been created, and celebrate our uniqueness.
~ Unknown
If you don't conform to other people's ideas of what is right, correct, and proper, then don't worry. It is your right to look at things differently. Guilt should not enter the picture. There is already enough guilt, blame, and self-condemnation in the Universe to go around.
~ Unknown
Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Hellboy, to be other than human does not necessarily mean to be less. Remember that, remember me.
~ Mike Mignola
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
~ Mike Myers
Don't assume that you are the exception.
~ Unknown
If you want to appeal to the masses, make sure you appeal to the one. If you try to write with everybody in mind, you'll appeal to no one because everyone will think your book is for someone else.
~ Unknown
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
~ Milan Kundera
I am not proposing to ask you to see it from my point of view. You cannot, no matter how willing you are to try. No two people ever see life from the same angle. There is a law which decrees that two objects may not occupy the same space at the same time - result: two people cannot see things from the same point of view, and the slightest difference in angle changes the thing seen.
~ Unknown
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.
~ Milton Lomask
There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.
~ Min Jin Lee