Being Different Quotes - Page 6

• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Philosophical, Cutting

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• For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

  Lady Gaga

  Unique, Complicated, Easy

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

  Patricia Briggs

  Believe, People, Accepting

  Patricia Briggs (2001). “The Hob's Bargain”, p.75, Penguin

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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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-Jones

  Live Your Life, Splits, May

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

  Tyler Perry

  Giving Up, Happened, Giving

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• It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

  Marilyn Manson

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Ashamed

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Different, Crowds

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• 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

  Ideas, Diversity, Important

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

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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

  Acceptance, Differences, Tolerance

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• Diversity is a great force towards creativity.

  Michael Eisner

  Creativity, Diversity, Force

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• As I get older, I'm more willing to take on more, I guess. I feel more comfortable kind of being different characters and kind of stretching it a little more. Like with The Visitation. At least for me, being an actor, I have to draw from human experiences, so it was kind of a stretch playing that role. Kind of supernatural... kind of like what I did in The Crow actually.

  Edward Furlong

  Character, Crow, Kind

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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 Dilts

  Age, Stubborn, Size

  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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• 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

  People, Worry, Desire

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• Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

  Tamora Pierce

  Thinking, Might, Like You

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

  Andrew Young

  School, Kids, College

  "Andrew Young: Nothing you can't solve without violence". Interview with Henry Unger, www.ajc.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Air, People

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.

  John Lennon

  People, Way, Saws

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• A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

  Allan Sherman

  Color, Might, Normal

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• Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, People, Judging

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• Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

  Rick Pitino

  Organization, Individual, Motivated

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

  John Lennon

  Eight, People, Genius

  "Lennon Remembers, Part Two". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. February 4, 1971.

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• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Writing, Artist

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 9), 2000.

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