Quotes About Distinctiveness

I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

I wanted to be different and went in for roles with substance after my first film itself.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Be daring. Be first. Be different.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

Discover your difference—the asynchrony with which you have been blessed or cursed—and make the most of it.

Without fanfare, Starbucks was also going to open two coffee shops in Seattle that were not like any of our existing stores. Each would serve Starbucks coffee but be unique

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Ipseity is essentially just another way to say selfhood or individuality

Craig Groeschel

Different can be good. It makes you pay attention" -Dr. Katz

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'

When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'