Quotes and Sayings About Being Different
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The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.
-- Alain Ducasse -
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.
-- Alice Eve -
It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.
-- Andrej Pejic -
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
-- Andy Stanley -
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
-- Andy Warhol -
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
-- Arto Lindsay -
You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
-- Bill Vaughan -
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
-- Carson Kressley -
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.
-- Daniel Pearce -
Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.
-- Drake -
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
-- E. Lockhart -
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
-- Elijah Wood -
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
-- Elijah Wood -
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
-- Emanuel Celler -
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
-- Freida Pinto -
It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
-- George Takei -
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.
-- Harry Callahan -
As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
-- James M. Barrie -
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
-- Jean Charest -
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary from the ordinary. WOW! Separates the strong from the weak. WOW! separates the sincere from the insincere. WOW! separates the pro's from the con's. WOW! separates the yes's from the no's. WOW! is the full measure of your personal power, and the way you use it. WOW! is doing what others can't (or won't). WOW! is what you do for others in an exceptional way. WOW! is the ticket to success. Your ticket. Are you WOW?
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.
-- Jennie Runk -
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.
-- John Hartford -
No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.
-- John Tamihere -
I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
-- Kaitlin Olson -
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
-- Kate Bornstein
