Distinctive Quotes

• Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Progress

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sublime, Treasure, Poverty

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• I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Life, Believe, Unique

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

  David McCullough

  Believe, Achievement, Life Is

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

  Glenn Miller

  Music, Personality, Sound

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• Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

  Napoleon Hill

  Winning, Men, Action

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.468, Courier Corporation

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• Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Unique, Men, Doe

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• Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Hands, People

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• I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

  Richard Serra

  Space, Sculpture, Use

  Kynaston McShine, Richard Serra, Lynne Cooke, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2007). “Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years”, p.77, The Museum of Modern Art

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• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  Randy Bachman

  Voice, Stories, Great Voice

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• Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Excellence, Behavior

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• To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

  Keith Emerson

  Unique, Remains, This Day

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• Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Passion, Unique, Actors

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• The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Community, Understanding

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.658, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Taken, Unique

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• Sometimes it feels like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us, but spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge that is like the key that opens the door or the switch that starts the energy moving.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Spiritual, Moving, Keys

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• It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

  Ernest Nagel

  Knowledge, Science, Organization

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• My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the way the physical organs of the body develop. That is, in their fundamental character they are innate; their basic form is determined by the genetic structure of the organism. Of course, they grow under particular environmental conditions, assuming a specific form that admits of some variation. Much of what is distinctive among human beings is a specific manner in which a variety of shared cognitive structures develop.

  Noam Chomsky

  Character, Feelings, Environmental

  Source: chomsky.info

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• We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why

  Kent Bach

  Wine, Appreciate, Able

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• The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Principles, Individualism

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• Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

  David Bayles

  Running, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.

  Michael Caine

  Voice, Done, Mouths

  "Michael Caine Interview CARS 2". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

  Arianna Huffington

  Uplifting, Stars, Book

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• A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Character, Voice, Able

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