Individuality Quotes

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

If you don't have any individuality and you're happy just being one of the girls (or boys) be my guest. I'm not the fashion police. I won't fault you.