Being Different Quotes - Page 2

• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Being Yourself, I Dont Care

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• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Business, Lying

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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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

  Funny, Hater, Witty

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• Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

  Michael Porter

  Mean, Unique, Strategy

  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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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Struggle, True Identity

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, Differences

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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 Twain

  Successful, Just Being, Being Original

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

  James Hollis

  Being Yourself, Mean, Differences

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• Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, People

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• I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Freedom, Equality

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• Snowflakes fascinate me... Millions of them falling gently to the ground... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others... The last of the rugged individualists!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fall, Individual Differences, Two

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• I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Women, Eels, People

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• 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 Tequila

  Beautiful, Thinking, Identity

  "Biography: Tila Tequila". www.thecinemaholic.com. April 07, 2018.

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• No two people have the same reality

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Reality, Individual Differences

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 26, 2016

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• The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

  Emanuel Celler

  Depression, Panic, Inhibitions

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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.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Sake, Gang

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• I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

  Barry Watson

  Cowboy, Hair, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

  Elijah Wood

  Time, Trying, Different

  "Hobbit forming" by Tom Roston, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2001.

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• The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Unique

  "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World". Book by Wade Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2009.

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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