Henry David Thoreau Quotes

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller, the space on the bridge of the nose or between the eyes is wider or narrower. Everyone is different.

Every athlete, every person is individual.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Any time I do something, I want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else.

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Everyone is special in their own way.

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.