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“When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.”

Book:Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

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“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if you are too much of a rugged individualist, it might actually indicate that you are a weak, unreliable character and that you are selfish, in a childish, willful kind of way.”

Culture Individuality Japan Individualism Japanese Western Culture Cultural Differences Japanese Culture Childishness Childish Individualist

Book:The Japanophile's Handbook

Source: The Japanophile's Handbook

“An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—”

Self Names Language Individuality

Book:Babel-17

Source: Babel-17

“In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.”

Individuality Masterpiece

Book:Katie in Love

Source: Katie in Love

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

Thinking Humanity Individual Society Individuality Individualism Originality Think Yourself

Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and identity of their own volition, they are also relinquishing their claim to being human.”

Society Identity Human Individuality Drones

Book:How to Be Rich

Source: How to Be Rich

“Your power is in your individuality, in being exactly who you area.”

Individuality

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I’ve come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.”

Source: All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

“Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.”

School Individuality Conformity Adolescence Peer Pressure

Book:The Getting of Wisdom

Source: The Getting of Wisdom

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