Quotes about Individuality

There is spontaneity to my work.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

For me to have my little stamp on the sport, of course it's special.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"