Unique Quotes - Page 25

• If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

  Josiah Royce

  Men, Looks, Done

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

  Josiah Royce

  Strive, Needed, Various

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Son, Men, Sight

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• Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Indication, Uniqueness

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• Being great involves luck, and unique circumstances, and a lot of other forces beyond your control. You can’t just make it happen by working more or trying harder.
  There is an irony here, of course. The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.

  Charles Wheelan

  Thinking, Luck, Trying

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• As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

  Richard Leakey

  Children, Parent, Growth

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• Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

  Louise Brown

  Special, World, Way

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• If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence. I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me. Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.

  Bernie Siegel

  Prayer, Sleep, Eye

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• It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Clouds, Molecules

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• Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

  Allison Mackie

  Dark, Mind, Gears

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• I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

  Milton Avery

  Independent, Impact, Color

  Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”

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• Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

  Beverly Engel

  Being Yourself, Imperfection, Trying

  Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

  Pearl Cleage

  Thinking, People, Community

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• It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

  Peter Coveney

  Thinking, Space, Brain

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• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

  Kevin Nealon

  Jobs, Grew Up, Description

  "A Minute With: Kevin Nealon returning to stand-up comedy". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. August 1, 2012.

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• A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

  Max De Pree

  Whales, Diversity, Special

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

  Peter Senge

  Teaching, Community, Healthy

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• ‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Film

  "Rutger Hauer: Only Christopher Nolan should make new ‘Blade Runner’ film". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

  Maureen Reagan

  Taken, Media, Two

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• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Party, Thinking, Monsters

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

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• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Parenting, Helping Others

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, School, Player

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• When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  War, Hot, Massacres

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• A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

  Michael Azerrad

  Sprung Up, Voice, Perspective

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