Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

Terence McKenna

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

Temple Grandin

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

Scott Lynch

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Sia Furler

I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

Shirin Ebadi

Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.

Shelby Lynne

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

Leymah Gbowee

There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

Lewis Thomas

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lady Starlight

As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

Viktor E. Frankl

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Vanessa Paradis

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

Vaclav Havel

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Usher

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

Susan Sullivan

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Stephen Lang

I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.

Stephen Malkmus

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

Stephen King

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Stacie Orrico

I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.

Simon Conway Morris

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

Shanina Shaik

Everyone has something unique about them.

Natalie Massenet

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

Tatiana Maslany

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

Suzy Kassem

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

Tony Robbins

The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

Tony Robbins

We're all unique and individual biochemically, but there are certain rules that if you violate them, you're going to have disease in the body. If you're aligned with them, you're going to have an abundance of energy and vitality and health.

Tony Robbins

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.

Rick Bayan

True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

Tim Robbins

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Steven Wright

always remember your unique, just like everone else