Individuality Quotes

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

To me, style is all about expressing your individuality freely and courageously.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

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

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

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Be thankful not only that you are an individual but also that others are different. The world needs all kinds, but it also needs to respect and use that individuality.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.