Quotes About Uniqueness

Francis Galton (1822-1911), Darwin's cousin, was keen on evolution and heredity. He founded "Individual Differences" and discovered the uniqueness of finger-prints (1892). Galton was also an obsessive counter and measurer. He even counted yawns and coughs at lectures and theatres – trying to produce a "boredom measure"!

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, US anthropologist (1901–78)

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901–78) F

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

How good is different? I search stories for someone who resembles me. If it weren't for books and Joe, "different" would just be lonely.

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

We all know that there are a great many faces in the world, over the carving of which nature has spent no great pains, has used no delicate tools such as files or gimlets, but has simply rough-hewn them with a swing of the arm: one stroke of the axe and there's a nose, another and there are the lips, the eyes are bored with a great drill, and without polishing it off, nature thrusts it into the world, saying, "This will do.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Don't live a life you copy from others, it's definitely going to be complicated to you.

Every single star has its separate light to shine.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

The great Tolstoy wrote of families. He said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

That's what it says in my IEP, which is more letters. More initials that define who I am.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological "oddities," he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. "I hate crowds in science," he tells me. He doesn't fancy large scientific meetings either. "I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don't polish the brass on the bandwagon." Beginning

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

i am more/ than i am not/

You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man's pride is about the only thing he has that's worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn't have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

?simler, birbirinden farkl? yarat?klar? ay?rt etmek içindir; bizleri de?il.

Ben de hepinizden farkl? bir solucand?m, kim bilir? ?imdi yar?s? ezilmi?, yerde yatt??? için belli olmuyor.

Yüzlerce insan, binlerce insan... ço?u ne kadar önemsiz, ne kadar silik. ?çlerinden biri Selim olamaz m?yd?? Milyonlar?n içinde sadece bir Selim. Bu tabiat kanunlar? ne kadar insafs?z, diye dü?ündü. Kime zarar? dokunur bunun? Hepsinin eli, aya??, ba?? var... Selim gibi. Ne olur bu kadar el, ayak, ba? bir araya gelse de sadece bir tanecik Selim ç?karsalar aralar?ndan; ne olur bir tane Selim olsa.