999 Quotes About Individuality

It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

Authentic leadership is leadership that endures, because it exists as a function of the individual rather than a crowd of borrowed opinions.

If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.'How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event.