Quotes About Distinctiveness

She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Cultures and national belief systems that maintain their integrity can add to diversity. I'm a strong believer in melting pot societies, but enclaves of distinctiveness are important too. As long as every nation, and every diverse group within every nation, is accepting of others.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.

There is no one alive who is Youer than You!

The only one youer than you is you.

There is no one alive who is youier than you

But really what we're saying is that the Mona Lisa is famous because it's more like the Mona Lisa than anything else.

Broadly speaking, the thing you need to avoid is the general as contrasted with the particular (reptile creates a less vivid image than does rattler); the vague as contrasted with the definite (them guys is less meaningful than those three hoods who hang out at Sammy's poolroom); and the abstract as contrasted with the concrete (to say that something is red tells me less than to state that it's exactly the color of the local fire truck).

If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?

One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus

Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we look, think, and behave.

There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.

For Porter, strategic competition means choosing a path different from that of others. Instead of competing to be the best, companies can—and should—compete to be unique.

Strategic competition means choosing a path different from that of others.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Sylvie would love differently. She would celebrate whoever her beloved happened to be; she would be curious about his distinctiveness and sink into a love that was unblinkingly honest.

It's lonely? Sure, it's lonely. That's what you asked for, didn't you? After all, if you hadn't been too superior for the gang, you wouldn't be here. And think how much more distinguished it is to be on your own, or with one or two individualists like yourself, than to be an ordinary gregarious animal going about with the herd.

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I've never seen people, or humanity. I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar, Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.