Uniqueness Quotes - Page 15

• Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.

  Masi Oka

  Mean, Thinking, Passionate

  "“Heroes'” Masi Oka is super-geeky". Interview with Florangela Davila, www.seattletimes.com. May 14, 2007.

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• The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Imagination, Solitude, Poet

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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• Lindsay is unique in that she's a star in creating. She'll create something out of nothing, either for herself or her teammates. She's the Steve Nash of the WNBA.

  John Whisenant

  Stars, Unique, Creating

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• UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership

  Nicholas Serota

  Unique, Important, Partnership

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• While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later...I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.

  St. Lucia

  Comedian, Mind, Usual

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

  Laurence Gartel

  Art, Jobs, Individuality

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• During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey P. Newton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• I am not strange. I am just not normal.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Normal, Strange

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• I know today that appreciating your own beauty does not come solely from therapy, make up application, or plastic surgery- although these things can help. Rather, it comes from a little door that opens in our minds and helps us celebrate our differences and find pride in our uniqueness.

  Laura Mercier

  Pride, Doors, Differences

  Laura Mercier (2010). “The New Beauty Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to a Flawless Face”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Recognize and honour your uniqueness.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Honour

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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, Guitar

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• The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life

  Ravi Zacharias

  Journey, Accepting, Process

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• The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.

  Paul Keating

  Self, Ideas, Australia

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• On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Diversity, Culture, Levels

  "Interview: Benjamin Bratt and Leon Ichaso Talk Piñero". Interview with Ed Gonzalez, www.slantmagazine.com. December 21, 2001.

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• The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Lying, Yoga

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.110, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

  Maurice Sendak

  People, Childhood, Magic

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• You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Mold, Broke

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• I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Garden, Giving, Mind

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• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Country, Diversity, Adoption

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• Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.

  Larry Bakersfield

  Witty, Pain, Expression

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• The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

  Crane Brinton

  History, Events, Doctrine

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• When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

  Dale Archer

  Inspiring, Motivation, Greatness

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• However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Thought Provoking

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