Individuality Quotes - Page 21

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Single, Peace

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• 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.

  Elton John

  Stars, Rocks, Mind

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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• Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

  Lucy Larcom

  Children, Rich Or Poor, Needs

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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

  Annie Lennox

  Past, Years, Twenties

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Integrity, Self, Accomplishment

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.8, Penguin

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• It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

  Og Mandino

  Humor, Men, Focus And Concentration

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• We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

  Mary McCarthy

  Life, Hero, Positive Attitude

  "Characters in Fiction". Partisan Review, March/April 1961.

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• American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eagles, Stylish, Flattering

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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

  Brian Molko

  Being Yourself, Proud, Flattery

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

  Aimee Mullins

  Champion, Innovation, Pentagon

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• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Individual Morality, Ethics And Morals

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

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• 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.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Believe, Sadness

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• No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

  Steven Pinker

  Expression, People, Brain

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• A finished person is a boring person.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Reading, Boring

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• For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Clothes, Feel Good, Different

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• Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

  J. K. Rowling

  No Money, Huge, Amount

  "Rowling Draws On Personal Experience In 'Vacancy'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 26, 2012.

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• The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, White

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• Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

  George Santayana

  Design, Hobbies, Paradise

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• Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  World, Spirit, Individualism

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• Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

  Will Self

  Past, Statistics, Madness

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• The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

  Georg Simmel

  Exhausted, Individualism, Sophisticated

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

  Georg Simmel

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Historical

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Blue, Years

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