Individuality Quotes - page 12

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality. (Elton John)
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality. View quote
Tony Hawk
We're going to take away their individuality in various ways. In general what all this leads to is a sense of powerlessness. That is, in this situation we'll have all the power and they'll have none. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
When Pushkin - who was in the position of having to think what form a national culture might take - called for a dispassionate criticism, he wasn't calling for help in writing poems, which he could do all by himself. He was merely stated his wish to write them in a civilized atmosphere, whose absence was reducing him to isolation, and thereby damaging his individuality. View quote
Clive James
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. ... Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all. View quote
David Bohm
Consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly, each and every creature, each and every human being - in one form or the other - strives to assert individuality. View quote
Meher Baba
I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find. View quote
John Banville
I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really. View quote
Marc Jacobs
demons and fishhooks he exclaimed i am losing my personal identity as a worm my individuality is melting away from me odds craw i am becoming part and parcel of this bloody robin so help me i am thinking like a robin and not like a worm any longer yes yes i even find myself agreeing that a robin must live i still do not understand with my mentality why a robin must live and yet i swoon into a condition of belief. View quote
Don Marquis
In addition to that sentience, which the insect or animal has, the human being is endowed with intellect. Intellect is what is cognized, which the animal need not do. So it is this power of the intellect to discriminate and interpret what is cognized that gives the individual being a sense of individuality and makes him consider himself something special in this manifestation. What is more, he goes to the extent of believing that the entire manifestation has been created for his benefit! So, all the time he is thinking, In what way can I benefit by exploiting nature? View quote
Ramesh Balsekar
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. (Thomas Merton)
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. View quote
J. K. Rowling
One could never remember himself in eternity by the mere fact of having loved or hated any more than by that of having thirsted; love and hate have no more individuality in them than single waves in the ocean;-but the accidents or trivial marks which distinguished those whom we loved or hated make their memory our own forever, and with it that of our own personality also. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No one can transcend their own individuality. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality. View quote
Emma Watson
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. View quote
Thomas More
Self-expression is individuality, and our individuality is our self, which ought to be our chief concern. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience. View quote
Tom Robbins
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality. View quote
Barbra Streisand
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought. View quote
Josiah Royce
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. (Josiah Royce)
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. View quote
Josiah Royce
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences. View quote
John Stuart Mill
It is clear that women who are feminists must gradually and ultimately dominate public and social institutions-so as to ensure that they are not used against women. I say "dominate" because I don't think that "equality" or "individuality" will be possible for women who have never experienced supremacy in public institutions as men have. ... The point is to have our entire social drama played out as fully by women as by men. And it is revolutionary by definition to have women "out of the biological home," both psychologically and actually. Whatever happens after that is then a matter for . . . everyone. View quote
Phyllis Chesler
If any common program is impossible, if there is no such thing as an education that everybody ought to have, then we must admit that any community is impossible. All men are different; but they are also the same. As we must all become specialists, so we must all become men. ... The West needs an education that draws out our common humanity rather than our individuality. Individual differences can be taken into account in the methods that are employed and in the opportunities for specialization that may come later. View quote
Robert Maynard Hutchins