Individuality Quotes

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

~ Edward Rickenbacker

We’re stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we’re all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

~ Dannika Dark

I don't beg for those things which can be earned.

~ Amit Kalantri

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

~ Amit Kalantri

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

~ Amit Kalantri

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

~ Amit Kalantri

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

~ John Lennon

The advice to kill your darlings has been attributed to various authors across the various galaxies... and Mister Heist hated them all.Why teach young writers to edit out whatever it is they feel most passionate about?Better to kill everything in their writing they DON'T love as much.Until only the darlings remain.

~ Brian K. Vaughan

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectacle. Obliged to live as appendages of the market and of capital accumulation rather than as expressive beings, the realm of freedom shrinks before the awful logic and the hollow intensity of market involvements

~ David Harvey

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

~ Hugh Macleod

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring -

~ Edgar Allan Poe

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I’ve come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.

~ Terry Gross

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

~ Octavio Paz

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.

~ Yvon Chouinard

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

~ Jerry Spinelli

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

~ Floriano Martins

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity, I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

~ Charles Taylor

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

~ René Dubos

Your personality of the mind is like a castle of sand around the sea. The time you begin to disassociate yourself with different experiences and impressions of both the external and internal world, you won’t find anything inside.

~ Roshan Sharma

Always remember it's never about the other, the whole effort is to find your true self 'through' the other. In fact whenever your focus shifts from YOU to the other, there is bondage which will result in pain and anguish. The other is just a medium through which you can reach your interiority. Never be obsessed for them, for that would lead to a self invited hell.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.

~ Dan Groat

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

~ Erich Fromm

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns.

~ Erich Fromm

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—

~ Samuel R. Delany

You are a sacred-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

~ Charles Bukowski

We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

~ Chris Matakas

We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.

~ Chris Matakas

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

~ Boris Pasternak

Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise innature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.

~ Antony John

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

~ Sigmund Freud

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

~ Flannery O'connor

I’m ALL about the Alternative.

~ Solange Nicole

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

~ Joanne Harris

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

~ Vincent Van Gogh