quotes 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 -
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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 -
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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 RudolphSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 GreySource : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.38, Shambhala Publications
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
-- Augustus William HareSource : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
-- Ayn Rand -
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Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.
-- Ayn Rand -
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
-- Bella Abzug -
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.
-- Ben Shahn -
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
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Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
-- Bertrand Russell -
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
-- Bharati Mukherjee -
Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.
-- Bill Blass -
I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.
-- Bill Reid -
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
-- Billie Holiday -
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.
-- Bobbi Brown -
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
-- Boethius -
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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
-- Boy George -
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
-- Brian Molko -
I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.
-- Brittany Murphy -
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 -
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Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.
-- Busy Philipps -
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
-- Carl Jung -
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.
-- Carl Rogers -
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
-- Charles Horton CooleySource : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers
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It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Each day has its own individuality of color.
-- Charles Webster HawthorneSource : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.
-- Chittaranjan DasSource : "Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan: brief survey of life and work, provincial conference speeches, Congress speeches". Book by Chitta Ranjan Das, Rajen Sen, B.K. Sen, "Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921", 1926.
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The individual is the brain, not the heart.
-- Christiaan Barnard -
Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance
-- Christian Dior -
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
-- Chuck JonesSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
-- Clark Moustakas -
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To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
-- Cyril Cusack -
Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.
-- Darren Criss -
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
-- David Icke -
My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.
-- David Levithan -
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At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At the heart of deep, new time is the creative spirit. But at the heart of our time is love.
-- David Spangler -
It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.
-- David Trumble -
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.
-- Demi LovatoSource : Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.29, Macmillan
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I think there’s something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think we’re in a generation where we’re accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think that’s the most important part.
-- Denise Bidot -
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
-- Dian FosseySource : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
-- Diane Wakoski -
The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves—in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought—until we are reborn in Christ.
-- Dietrich von HildebrandSource : Dietrich Von Hildebrand (2001). “Transformation in Christ”, p.17, Ignatius Press
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
-- Dolly Parton -
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels
-- Donna Karan -
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.
-- Edmund Blair Bolles -
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I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.
-- Edouard Vuillard -
Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.
-- Edward Bach -
There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.
-- Edwin Land -
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
-- Edwin Land -
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True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.
-- Eli Siegel -
I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.
-- Elton John -
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
-- Emma Donoghue -
It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.
-- Emma Watson -
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All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.
-- Eric Hoffer -
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
-- Eric Kandel -
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
-- Erich AuerbachSource : Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press
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Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.
-- Erich von Stroheim -
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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
-- Ernest Renan -
To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.
-- Faith PopcornSource : Faith Popcorn (2001). “EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life”, p.12, BookBaby
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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
-- Felix Schelling -
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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.
-- Frank Herbert -
Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.
-- Frank Knight -
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.
-- Franz Kafka -