Quotes About Uniqueness

A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.

You know that we English are not all the same, though, don't you?

He who walks out of step hears another drum.

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

But the new guy is different, and the Acutes can see it, different from anybody been coming on this ward for the past ten years, different from anybody they ever met outside. He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him.

There's nothing worse for a forest than to have all the trees be the same

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum

The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy—especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery—is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

Be yourself and become wealthy!

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.

Just because you shot Jesse James...don't make you Jesse

Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.

In a world full of oddities, it's how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormalities, that determines your most interesting self.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.