If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.
Michael LewisTag: individuality education motivation
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
R. Scott BakkerTag: individuality philosophy
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
Emil M. CioranTag: individuality philosophy liberalism individualism
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTag: individuality greatness virtue conformity zeitgeist flaws era
When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
Lola-ButterflieTag: individuality unique uniqueness
The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.
G.K. ChestertonTag: individuality sanctification
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
Octavio PazTag: individuality solitude communication loneliness selfhood
If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.
Jeff GoinsTag: individuality writing creativity
People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.
Lionel SuggsTag: individuality leadership
With over a millennia of heritage behind them, each with their own glimpse of empire and some pinnacle of human expression (a Sistine Chapel or Götterdämmerung), now they were satisfied to express their individuality through which Rogers they preferred at the Saturday matinee: Ginger or Roy or Buck. America may be the land of opportunity, but in New York it's the shot at conformity that pulls them through the door.
Amor TowlesTag: individuality conformity new-york immigrants
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