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Source: Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.”

People Thinking Needs Mean Ideas Artist Genius Unique Isolated Great Art Great Artist Being Unique

Author:John Lasseter

“It's kind of a unique concept, but it's totally real, isn't it? ... I mean, these paramedics put themselves in incredibly stressful situations, are killing themselves to save our lives and they're not really regarded or appreciated.”

Kind Mean Real Situation Our Lives Unique Concepts Killing Uniqueness Appreciated Stressful Paramedics Stressful Situations

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)”

Life Mean Stills Chance Mistake Minutes Unique Patterns Snowflake Peas Inspection American Gods Peas In A Pod

Author:Neil Gaiman

“In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, "Love thy neighbor!" means "Love the Muslims!" OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.”

Mean Persons Important Today Jesus President Chance Prove Unique Neighbor Campaigns President Bush Love Thy Neighbor Important Person Most Important Person Mean Love

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.”

Ifs Trying Mean Art Religious Levels Study Psychology Missing Elements Unique Economics Essence Sacred Phenomenon Sociology Linguistics Physiology

Author:Mircea Eliade

“Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.”

Mean Individual Cases Fit Equal Unique Concepts Originals Reminders

Book:Nietzsche Selections

Source: Nietzsche Selections

“A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.”

Way Mean Children Stories Literature Loses Imagination Alive Growing Reader Unique Dancing Tales Encounters Listeners Good Story Lively Arrivals Spirited Children's Literature

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.”

Thinking World Way Believe Mean Said Jesus Unique Representation

Author:Andrew Greeley

“In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.”

Mean Different Happens Stuff Unique Medical Prophet Vocation Pioneers Egotistical Pioneering Neurosurgery

Author:Charles Teo

“Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.”

Source: The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community

“By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.”

Mean Individual Class Type Unique Doctrine Metaphysical

Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

“Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.”

Kind Mean Important Feelings Levels Perspective Skills Degrees Unique Important Things Entertainers Unique Perspective

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.”

Mean Can Do Pride Personality Unique

Author:Don Rickles

“I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Use Names Strong Fun Dark Fire Baby Internet Victory Unique Red France Greek Site Phoenix Matching

Author:Franny Armstrong

“While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.”

World Inspirational Trying Looks Mean Children Struggle Unique

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.”

May Mean Cutting Materials Essentials Unique Busy Simplicity Distraction Stressed Too Busy Fragmented Taking Charge Unique Life

Author:Duane Elgin

“Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.”

Knows Mean Long States Long Time Unique University Brands Uniqueness Indiana

Author:Marc Edwards

“Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.”

Mean Stills Talent Pride Genius Unique Phrases Dazzling Joyce

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.”

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

Way Mean Art Reality Beautiful Photography Unique Genuine Beautiful Art

Author:Daido Moriyama

“Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you.”

People Knows Mean Beautiful Perfect Accepting Special Love You Tvs Mom Unique Likes Imperfection Love Yourself Your Mom Nobody's Perfect

Author:Keke Palmer

“So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.”

Way Mean Feelings Certain Lost Parent Hell Generations Unique Universal Yeah

Author:Zach Braff

“We are to believe and follow Christ in all things, including his words about Scripture. And this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to him: the unique, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God, and not merely a human testimony to Christ, however carefully guided and preserved by God. If the Bible is less than this to us, we are not fully Christ's disciples.”

Ifs Believe Humans Mean Christ Unique All Things Including Scripture Word Of God Disciple Testimony

Book:The Foundation of Biblical authority

Source: The Foundation of Biblical authority

“I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'”

Ifs Needs Wells Mean Home Running Wish Successful Unique Hollywood Being Successful Home Run Hitting Home Runs Unique Things

Author:Kristen Stewart

“To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.”

Men Want Wells Mean Stills Able Film Class Unique Fairs Crosses Genuine Hardest Genre Australia Hardest Thing X Men

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Moments Three Mistake Audience Stage Type Band Members Unique Add Fewer Locked Idiosyncrasies

Author:Chris Cain

“Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.”

Needs Giving Mean Self Shows Grows Growing Up Unique Wake Up Symphony Self Giving Unique Gifts Unique Self

Author:Marc Gafni

“This is [Joe] Biden's unique way. I mean, here's a guy that never makes a gaffe, right?”

Way Mean Guy Unique Biden

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My opponent misses something important. When we say America is exceptional, it doesn`t mean that people from other places don`t feel deep national pride, just like we do. It means that we recognize America`s unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress.”

People Feels Mean Important America Force Ability Progress Missing Pride Unique Opponents Exceptional National Pride

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.”

Men Mean Art Ideas Nations Wealth Greater Materials Unique Oppression Remarkable Comparison Relative Standpoint Present Day Brag American Society Mobility Material Wealth

Author:Erich Fromm

“My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.”

Should Mean Children Littles Doe Ideas Eye Lasts Bits Nice Example Mom Husband Little Bit Unique Should Have My Mom Eccentric Nice Eyes

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I mean they [ Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis] are both just really good guys and also they're both extremely funny in very unique ways. We made each other laugh an awful lot, and that goes a long way. And we also went through some hard times. I mean it was hard to make this movie [The Hangover].”

Way Mean Long Made Hard Guy Laughing Unique Awful Hard Times Long Way Good Guy Hangover Extremely Funny

Author:Ed Helms

“[Code Black] doesn't look like any other CBS show... and I don't mean that as any sort of judgment. It's just unbelievably unique, it's gorgeous, and it looks like a film.”

Looks Mean Shows Film Black Judgment Unique Code Gorgeous

Author:Rob Lowe

“Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.”

Ifs Writing Mean Opportunity Process Memories Return Unique Who You Are Ugly Memoir Chapters Revision Unique Opportunities

Author:Joshua Mohr

“On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of the things I'm learning is that when stuff goes wrong, really brilliant musicians have the ability to turn this into something interesting and unique. I think good people in any sphere of anything know how to deal with problems, how to take it in your stride. We are learning this by touring, by being put in these positions when we need to focus and deal with it.”

People Thinking Mean Problem Ability Interesting Focus Musician Unique Brilliant Good People Something Interesting

Author:Joey Badass

“To me, being a woman in 2016 means having a voice, being unique, being true to yourself, and finding a way to be of service.”

Mean Unique Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Author:Jenna Dewan

“If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.”

Mean Unique Optimistic Redundant

Author:Garry Kasparov

“It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.”

Kind Mean Lying Natural Unique Historical

Author:W. H. Auden

“I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any sense of normalcy in their lives, any sense of security, and most of them are oddly unique individuals. Let's have a broader conversation with people that have spent their last however-many-years thinking about their lives. I mean, they're philosophers. They're poets. They're people who are on the outside looking in at the world through a different set of values.”

People Thinking World Mean Different Desire Values Individual Sacrifice Security Poet Unique Commitment Philosopher Courageous

Author:Marc Maron

“In a business setting, one's intelligence is crucial. Many problems faced by today's executives are unique and ill-defined. So, one's ability to analyze information and render a decision based upon the probability of success is imperative. What it comes down to is that all the knowledge in the world is useless if one has no means of processing and applying it. Organizations run on the brainpower of their people.”

People World Mean Problem Running Ability Decision Unique Probability

Author:Justin Menkes

“Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to express their support for him. The Russian system is not unique in this respect, but it is rather interesting. Here, in the West, the impression that people have is that Putin runs the whole country. This is not so, at all. To a certain extent, you could say that he runs the Kremlin, and this means that it's, in some situations, hard to tell whether it's him running the Kremlin, or the people around him running him.”

People Mean Country Running Interesting Situation Support Unique Election Western Impression

Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“I think about the college graduating classes and high school classes that are coming up now they're in a unique position. I mean they're entering one of the toughest economies of all time. At the same time if they're willing to work really hard the ability they have to learn something much faster than we ever did before is there and it's really a question of are you willing to put in the effort and go that extra mile. Because if you are I think there's actually more opportunities out there.”

Thinking Mean School Opportunity Ability Effort Economy College Unique High School All Time Extras Graduates

Author:John Buffalo Mailer

“I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.”

Thinking Giving Mean Opportunity Chance Responsibility Accepting Break Gay Unique Stereotype Latino

Author:Richard Blanco

“The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.”

Mean Important Greater Unique Letters Mail Scent Deliberate Flawed Handwritten Letters

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.”

Mean Given Process Decision Poor Millions Members Unique Shadow Institutions Males Decision Making Borrowers Decision Making Process

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one of your parents and you realize, 'Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, too.' You're not that original. I mean, in a good way, because it makes you feel like you're connected and a part of the world and not an island.”

Thinking World Way Feels Mean Problem Stuff Parent Realizing Like You Unique Originals Yeah Connected Islands Good Way

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78”

Ifs World Needs Mean Persons Has Beens Ends Born Unique Originals Narrative Something New Diamond Sober Like Her

Author:Martin Buber

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”

Ifs World Needs Mean Littles Doe Said Stills Boys Thousand Unique Hundred Ties Foxes Neglected Little Boys

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right".”

Source: A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward

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