Quotes About Distinctiveness

Talent sticks out like a sore thumb.

Never, never, never should the pocket square be of the same pattern as your ties. You are not 'Reverend Ike.'

Tiger is free to explore the world himself. He is a man whose persona is totally different from what I had during my initial days. There can't be any comparison between the two of us, since he is absolutely different.

Different is better than better. Different doesn't try to turn you into something else. Different allows you to highlight the singular traits you already have within you. You aren't necessarily better than your competition. But you are already different.

Who you are is the greatest differentiator you've ever had.

Here's your choice: Spend a lot of time and money in pursuit of better. Or find what makes you different, and then do it on purpose.

Instead of trying to outdo your competition, focus on what makes you different. The goal is to find where you and your product diverge from standard expectations.

The Goal Is to Break Out, Not Blend In There are few times in your life when it isn't too melodramatic to say your destiny hangs on the impression you make.

Every man is in certain respects (a) like all other men, (b) like some other men, (c) like no other man. —Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry A. Murray

Cookie cutter answers don't yield results. Be the true expression of yourself.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

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Mi torre no debe parecerse a las demás, ni la comparo con ellas. No se trata de que sea todo lo alta posible. Debe además corresponderse con mi naturaleza.

Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.

Morgan had been, for a very long time, the most remarkable object in her own landscape, and anything stranger than herself was, to her mind, either an obvious sham, or non-existent.

I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million.

In many ways, Mitt Romney and I are very different. Different starts in life. Different paths to leadership. Different cultures.

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.

There is no reason that all human existence should be constructed on some one or some small number of patterns. [...] A man cannot get a coat or a pair of boots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet?

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

what's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways.

My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.