Individual Expression Quotes

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

Lyle Lovett

Song, Expression, Singing

Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

Confidence, Fear, Light

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Life, Confidence, Fear

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.

Frank Gehry

Expression, People, Culture

Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that gives you a lot of room for unique and individual expression. Whatever you're interested in can become something you kind of own in your group of skater friends.

James Mercer

Unique, Thinking, Expression

Source: www.avclub.com

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What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.

Alexey Brodovitch

Photography, Thinking, Expression

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From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

Naomi Wolf

Sex, Vacation, Expression

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If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

Peter McWilliams

Compassion, Rights, Expression

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Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

Felix Frankfurter

Men, Expression, Law

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As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Expression, Literature, World

Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.

William Rehnquist

Heart, Expression, Ideas

"Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46". The U.S. Supreme Court case, www.law.cornell.edu. February 24, 1988.

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Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.

Susan Forward

Expression, Effort, Parent

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Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.

Herbert Schiller

Expression, Marketing, Example

"Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future

Carl Rogers

Attitude, Acceptance, Expression

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Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.

Otis Chandler

Expression, Surfing, Special

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Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

Greg Thomas

Music, Integrity, Expression

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The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.

Alexey Brodovitch

Photography, Thinking, Expression

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Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

Henry Jenkins

Expression, Focus, Community

"Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century". www.nwp.org. 2006.

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Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free music. Having said that, Jazz is based on individual expression and I'm compelled to respect the Free player's option to express himself as he chooses.

Pete La Roca

Music, Player, Expression

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Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

Kimon Nicolaides

Mean, Expression, Technique

Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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