self-differentiation Quotes

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

When you get a little bit older, you're always trying to do something different from your siblings.

When you aren't able to do what makes you dominant, what separates you from the pack, it can throw your mind off.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

If I wasn't a fighter, I wouldn't be unique.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani. But I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.

Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.

I deliberately try to carry a different perception of myself as opposed to my father's. I respect my dad and his body of work, but I can't give him credit for what I am today. As a person, I give my parents full credit; career-wise, no.

When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.

From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.