#dual

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#individuality #inspirational #inspirational

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#inspirational #inspirational

I'd rather be the weird kid that everybody remembers ten years from now than that popular chick that nobody remembers ten years from now. ↗

— Avalon Kirkland Jones

#inspiration #inspirational

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick. ↗

— Dave Chapelle

#fitting-in #individuality #inspirational #truth #wisdom

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#leadership #leadership

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose! ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#crowd #individuality #life #life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#ecstasy #individuality #joy-of-life #life

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#life #life