Uniqueness Quotes - Page 8

• The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Learning, Essence, Giving

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• We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

  William James

  Unique, Novelty, Embrace

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• It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

  James Dobson

  Unique, Giving, Vitality

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.46, Multnomah

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• Each of us is a unique creation of our Heavenly Father. No two of us are completely alike. No one else has exactly the same gifts and talents that we have been given. We should increase those talents and gifts and use them to leverage our uniqueness.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Unique, Two

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• We shouldn't dwell on what is 'perfect.' We should celebrate our uniqueness.

  Eva Mendes

  Perfect, Celebrate, Should

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• The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Stars, Tree

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• My uniqueness reveals something of Christ that no one else does.

  Mike Glenn

  Doe, Christ

  Mike Glenn (2012). “The Gospel of Yes: We Have Missed the Most Important Thing About God. Finding It Changes Everything”, p.187, WaterBrook

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• Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Power, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've finally learned to love my voice for its uniqueness.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Voice

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• He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

  V. V. S. Laxman

  Dhoni, Quality, India

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• Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

  Oliver Herring

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Book, Knowledge, Science

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

  Brittany Finamore

  Motivational, Regret, Heart

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Relax, Comparison

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• If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

  Hope Solo

  Soccer, Football, Dream

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• For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that-either now or in the uncertain future-patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.

  Bruce Schneier

  Children, Eye, Individuality

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• The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

  Jane Fonda

  Way, Incredibles, Satisfying

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• Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

  Larry Winget

  Over You, Success Happiness, Prosperity

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.114, Penguin

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• All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

  Miranda Kerr

  Beautiful, Flower, Way

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• My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something.

  Pink

  Being Yourself, Stupid, Opportunity

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• Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Helping, Reason, Share

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

  Matt Ridley

  Commodity

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• PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

  Greg Graffin

  Growing Up, Expression, Punk

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• Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to the fact that she is Australian. This affords her a totally different attitude as an artist than traditional American contributors to this genre. Audrey is one of the most honest original artists I know.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Attitude, Believe, Artist

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