Quotes About Distinctiveness

Not all emeralds are exactly the same color.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. That sentence should be written in capital letters. Every person is unique—and not just in a trivial manner: importantly, significantly, meaningfully unique.

El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

But we all have a unique way of seeing and relating to the world, too. We are each utterly distinct persons. Out of our distinct love, we notice distinct aspects of reality, and reality responds to us along the lines of our distinctive care. Also, we all view life from a vantage point at least slightly different from anyone else's. And our experiences and training distinguish us from each other. Yet, as persons, we can share and delight in our differences.

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

A signature always reveals a man's character -and sometimes even his name.

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

We don't do things the same way everyone else does. We relish being different. We see that difference as an element that makes us more compelling to the consumer.

When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before.

I don't see anything remotely like me in boxing, past or future.

I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself. There has to be some kind of a new element in each project that I take up.

You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.

So many films are being shot on the DSLR, that they're all starting to look the same. There's a shallow depth of field. It's a nice look, but I can always identify a film shot with a DSLR.

Every human being is special because they all have identities.

I can't give up my own identity.

Every project is different. Adapting 'Robopocalypse' would be totally different than adapting, say, 'Hunger Games.' Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there's one single way to approach everything. Each project, there's a different way to attack it.

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly told her students, "You're absolutely unique, just like everyone else." Projects are like that. Whatever sets a project apart, it shares other characteristics with projects in its class.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?