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Quotes About Distinctiveness

What is unique about the I hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual I is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.
~ Milan Kundera
What is unique about the 'I' hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual 'I' is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.
~ Milan Kundera
He was not obsessed with women; he was obsessed with what in each of them is unimaginable, obsessed, in other words, with the one-millionth part that makes a woman dissimilar to other of her sex.
~ Milan Kundera
L'unicité du « moi » se cache justement dans ce que l'être humain a d'inimaginable. On ne peut imaginer que ce qui est identique chez tous les êtres, ce qui leur est commun. Le « moi » individuel, c'est ce qui se distingue du général, donc ce qui ne se laisse ni deviner ni calculer d'avance, c'est qu'il faut d'abord dévoiler, découvrir, conquérir chez l'autre.
~ Milan Kundera
When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually be seen. Everybody knows it's me. I love to hear the machine working.
~ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
and it is these differences that are classified as the particular
~ C. Rajagopalachari
Distinguishing Marks Every land has its distinguishing mark. Particular to Thessaly are horsemanship and horses; what marks a Spartan is war's season; Media has its tables with their dishes; hair marks the Celts, the Assyrians have beards. But the marks that distinguish Athens are Mankind and the Word.
~ C.P. Cavafy
The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.
~ Candace Bushnell
Handbags are not important anymore," Connie admonished her. "It said so in Vogue. Right now it's all about having something no one else possesses. It's about the one of a kind. The unique.
~ Candace Bushnell
We all have our funny little ways. Except me, obviously.
~ Terry Pratchett
I have to find the edge of the envelope and put my stamp on it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Hats defined the head. They defined who you were.
~ Terry Pratchett
Und dann sehe ich doch auch gleich, dass Sie anders sind als andere, dafür haben wir Frauen ein scharfes Auge.
~ Theodor Fontane
I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.
~ Bradley Wiggins
I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.
~ D'Angelo Russell
Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
If you boost your financial intelligence, moreover, you will very likely stand out from the crowd.
~ Karen Berman
If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?
~ Fynn
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
~ bronte charlotte iii
Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?
~ Bruce Bawer
My name is Anne; spelled with an e at the end." said Anne to Mrs. Thomas.
~ Budge Wilson
there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
~ Herman Melville
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
~ Sebastian Stan
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
~ Orson Welles