Quotes about Individuality

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching your or critising you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

But the courage to go against a sweep of feeling, to be an awkward minority, to stand up and be counted, even when it makes one unpopular, is not as prevalent as it should be. We have a long way to go to achieve responsible citizenship and common self-respecting humanity.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.