Quotes About Distinctiveness

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

I'm not a mimic.

Wir sollten immer daran denken, daß es auch noch etwas anderes auf der Welt gibt als die Gewöhnlichkeit.

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Idiosyncrasy

A wise professor once reminded her graduate students in psychology that "there is more variation within a group than between groups.

That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.

Byzantium was both a source to emulate and a foil against which to define the distinctiveness of the Muslim regime.

Oddity is in the mind of the receiver.

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

I always try to hit a few areas when I'm making a record; I want the sounds to be experimental and exploratory, I want the drumming to be distinctive, and I want my voice to be able to shine through.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

My style is my signature