Standing Out Quotes - Page 5

• There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Liberty, Cuba

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• You know, I don't want to stand out too much.

  Kevin Durant

  Want, Too Much, Knows

  "BDL Interview: Kevin Durant". Interview with Trey Kerby, sports.yahoo.com. August 12, 2010.

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• The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Enough, Best Technology

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2012

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• One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

  Mike Rounds

  Moving, Years, News

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• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

  John Burroughs

  Weather, Snow, Woods

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.56

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• What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Levels, Social, Tendencies

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• The things that stand out are often the oddities.

  Pierre Salinger

  Oddities

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• When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out.

  Philip J. Kaplan

  Names, Company

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• Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

  John Barrowman

  House, Grew Up, Glasgow

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• Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Games, Play, Able

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• In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.

  Holly Hunter

  Dream, Spiritual, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

  David Cameron

  Reset Button, Buttons, Three

  "Obama, Cameron stress trust" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

  Debbie Gibson

  School, Musical, Attention

  "Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue and on Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Wizards, Facts

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Relief

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• I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Art, Risk

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• Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Blood, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• I can stand out the war with any man.

  Florence Nightingale

  War, Men, I Can

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2010). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.258, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The good news - and it is largely good news - is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark

  Tom Peters

  Skills, News, Chance

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• Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this week - to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

  Tom Peters

  Quality, Done, Week

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• There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Sea, Pressure, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

  Walter D. Asmus

  Night, Theatre, Actors

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• I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!

  Walter Johnson

  Kids, Men, Rookies

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• Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks.

  Aesop Rock

  Flavor Of The Month, Guy, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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