Quotes About Distinctiveness

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

My style Offset. Straight up Offset. Ain't nobody like me. It's who I am.

The name Laurel is such a strange choice because I think when you look at me there's not one person that says 'Oh yeah, I could see you as a Laurel.'

And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die.… Hunter

the one consistent thing I have found is that there really is no normal when it comes to women.

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, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

The things that make me different are the things that make me me.

We all see the world differently from each other; we all have unique vision.

Like when you're young, you figure you're unique. I was young.

The lesson for the rest of us is that if we want to make people care, we've got to tap into the things they care about. When everybody taps into the same thing, an arms race emerges. To avoid it, we've either got to shift onto new turf, as Thompson did, or find associations that are distinctive for our ideas.

the more you stick to what is uniquely yours and the more authentic you are in what you do, the more interesting it is to others and the more marketable it is.

It's about being genuine with it and being yourself—just bringing out the creativeness, not doing the same thing everybody else is doing, regardless of whether it don't break through or pop off immediately.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

It's amazing how alike and anonymous all suburbs are, as undistinguishae from one another as highways. Maybe that's why I love cities. There's not a row of houses in London that could possibly be mistaken for New York. There isn't a square block in Manhattan that will ever for a moment remind you of London.

She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles.

Anna was entering the drawing room. Holding herself extremely straight as always, with her quick, firm and light step, which distinguished her from other society women,

En medio del vasto rebaño humano, el hombre excepcional siempre se siente solo

everyone is born unique but most of us die copies.

What is reasonable for you to expect is that no matter how idiosyncratic or "different" your own, particular voice may be, there will be a number of readers who will like it. Who will be drawn to the personality on the page.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.