Individual Differences Quotes

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  Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Educational, Differences

  Jane Goodall (1994). “With Love: Ten Heartwarming Stories of Chimpanzees in the Wild”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

  Marlee Matlin

  People, Effort, Being Different

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• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  People, Being Different, Mind

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

  James Hollis

  Being Yourself, Mean, Differences

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• I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

  Ani DiFranco

  Strength, Diversity, Comforting

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• No two people have the same reality

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Reality, Two

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 26, 2016

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• In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

  Elvis Presley

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

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  Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Thinking, Diversity

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• To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Different, Irreplaceable

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• Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Powerful, Simple

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• What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

  Joseph Epstein

  Inspirational, Dream, Man Of My Dreams

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• We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Inspirational Love, Gay

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• To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

  Les Paul

  Inspirational, Being Different, Originality

  FaceBook post by Les Paul from Nov 30, 2015

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• Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

  Rick Warren

  Differences, Growing, Determined

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2010

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

  James Bryant Conant

  Agreement, Democracy, Common

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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Struggle, True Identity

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• Snowflakes fascinate me... Millions of them falling gently to the ground... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others... The last of the rugged individualists!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fall, Two, Being Different

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• When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

  Ibn Hazm

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Health

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Freedom, Equality

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Healing, Our World

  "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

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