Quotes and Sayings About Individuality
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If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
-- A. W. Tillinghast -
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
-- Aaliyah -
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
-- African Spir -
What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
-- African Spir -
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
-- Agatha Christie -
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.
-- Aimee Mullins -
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
-- Alan Rudolph -
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
-- Albert Camus -
Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
-- Albert Einstein -
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
-- Aldous Huxley -
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
-- Alex Grey -
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
-- Alexander Smith -
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY DISTINGUISHABLE STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. RHYTHM MUST ARISE NATURALLY IN A FILM, A FUNCTION OF THE DIRECTOR'S INNATE SENSE OF LIFE AND COMMENSURATE WITH HIS QUEST FOR TIME.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.
-- Ani DiFranco -
Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.
-- Anna Louise Strong -
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
-- Anna Quindlen -
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
-- Arnold Arre -
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.
-- Ashley Montagu
