205 quotes found
“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to othe...”
“I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.”
“I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.”
“It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone elses play.”
“He recognized that need, in Odonian terms, as his "cellular function." the analogic term for the individual's individuality, the work he can do best, therefore his best contribution to his society....”
“So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley hims...”
“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 las...”
“Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, p...”
“A chain grows weaker with each new link.”
“What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others. ”
“Id love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldnt bother me to be as alone as a ...”
“At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation ...”
“After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has ...”
