Oliver Sacks Quotes

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

I am different. Let this not upset you

I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations.

I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.

The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.