#individuality

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#inspirational #success #inspirational

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. ↗

— Confucius

#inspiration #validation #inspirational

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#been #better #bit #case #early

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #idolatry #individuality #legacy #love

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#feeling #giving #his #hope #i

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#american experience #basic #basic human rights #citizens #experience

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#individuality #motivation #art