#unique

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

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way. ↗

— RKSJ

#life #special #uniqueness #life

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known. ↗

— Evan Parker

#exploit #fullest #i #known #looking

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#going #happen #heroes #high #high school

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. ↗

— Richard Price

#causes #coal #conveyor #environments #event

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#acting #actually #also #completely #different

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#caring #counted #formulate #lie #luxury

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#function #highest #love #love is #loved

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#artist #makes #me #personality #show

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#along #being #billion #few #get