Uniqueness Quotes - Page 14

• Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Patterns, Unpredictable

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.43, BookBaby

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• As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  Gloria Steinem

  Opposites, Anxiety, Individuality

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• No one can bring to God what you can.

  Bill Vaughan

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• No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

  James Hetfield

  Sports, Dream, Art

  "James Hetfield Of Metallica Talks SF Giants, New Music, Custom Cars And More". Interview with Franco Finn, live105.cbslocal.com. May 17, 2014.

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• We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

  Barbara Sher

  Emotional, Support, Delight

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.

  Amy Sedaris

  Land, Two, Giving

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• It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.

  Lisa Stone

  Thinking, Unique, Littles

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• The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

  Irwin M. Jacobs

  Unique, Design, Different

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• Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Crazy, Character, Islands

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• Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Two, Differences

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• I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

  Daniel Tammet

  Believe, Numbers, Mind

  "Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com.

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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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• That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

  W. H. Auden

  Hair, Self, Hands

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• Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Web Of Life

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Sep 13, 2011

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Perfection, Elbows, Hours

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• What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.

  MacDonald Harris

  Simple, Ego, Naked

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• Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Journey, Honor

  "Wherever You Go, There You Are". Book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994.

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• Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Unique

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• Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Unique

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

  Eileen Caddy

  Single, Unique, Human Nature

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• The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

  James Gunn

  Writing, Unique, Inheritance

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• Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

  Lea Michele

  Beautiful

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• I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.

  Lea Michele

  Beautiful, Girl, Italian

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• Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.

  Masi Oka

  Mean, Thinking, Passionate

  "“Heroes'” Masi Oka is super-geeky". Interview with Florangela Davila, www.seattletimes.com. May 14, 2007.

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