Quotes About Distinctiveness

Berg made himself unique so comparisons were impossible.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, US anthropologist (1901–78)

What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?

There are more than enough traits and Characteristics in this world for each of us to be richly endowed, I thought to myself.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Everyone has a soul. But the great man—the truly significant soul—is rare.

But she found herself drawn to Ivy because he wasn't like her at all, wasn't like anyone, really. Most people were different because they wanted to be noticed. ivy was different because he couldn't be anyone else

Wizards don't all look alike.

it's your actual act of service and going out of your way that makes you stand apart from everybody else.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

English people are not mass-produced. They do not come off a factory line all looking, speaking, thinking, acting the same. Neither do we.

Only do what only you can do.

It's thought that this heightened sensitivity to similarities and differences during interleaved practice leads to the encoding of more complex and nuanced representations of the study material—a better understanding of how specimens or types of problems are distinctive and why they call for a different interpretation or solution.

Everybody vanishes apart from us. Why? What's different about us three?