quotes 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 -
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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 WarholSource : Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2009). “The Andy Warhol Diaries”, p.336, Hachette UK
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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 -
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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 KressleySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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. LockhartSource : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press
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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 WoodSource : "Hobbit forming" by Tom Roston, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2001.
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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 PintoSource : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.19, The Overlook Press
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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 -
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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. BarrieSource : James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.25, Jazzybee Verlag
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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 -
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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 -
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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 OlsonSource : "It's Always Sunny with Kaitlin Olson". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. October 8, 2008.
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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 -
Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.
-- Katie Chapman -
People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.
-- Kevin Hart -
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People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different.
-- Krystal -
It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.
-- Marilyn Manson -
Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
-- Marisol NicholsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
-- Matt Bomer -
Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.
-- Mehmet Murat Ildan -
Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
-- Michael Eisner -
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
-- Michael PorterSource : Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1700, Harvard Business Review Press
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Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.
-- Michael Porter -
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."
-- Nancy Mairs -
I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.
-- Nicolas Sarkozy -
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
-- Rick Pitino -
My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.
-- Robert DiltsSource : Robert Dilts, Todd Epstein, Robert W. Dilts (1991). “Tools for dreamers: strategies for creativity and the structure of innovation”, Meta Pubns
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It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. THE FEAR OF BEING DIFFERENT PREVENTS MOST PEOPLE FROM SEEKING NEW WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
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Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
-- Samuel Hall Lord -
Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.
-- Shakuntala DeviSource : Shakuntala Devi (1977). “The world of homosexuals”, Lawrence Verry Incorporated
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I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
-- Shania TwainSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
-- Simon CowellSource : "Simon Cowell on ‘The X Factor’ auditions". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 7, 2011.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
-- Sylvia Plath -
When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
-- Tara Brach -
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
-- Tila TequilaSource : "Biography: Tila Tequila". www.thecinemaholic.com. April 07, 2018.
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Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.
-- Tony Hawk -
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I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
-- Will Rogers -
I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.
-- Chantelle Brown-YoungSource : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
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Sometimes being different is not going to be the most popular thing. But you have to be confident in you and what you know is right and stand firm. You may lose friends over it. Families may even split up because of it. But that's the price to pay. That's the cross to bear when you really live your life for Christ.
-- DeLisha Milton-JonesSource : "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
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Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .
-- Richard Pinhas -
My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.
-- Alexander NehamasSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.
-- Flemming RoseSource : Source: theundercurrent.org
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If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.
-- Holly Smale -
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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 -
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.
-- John Webster