Distinctiveness Quotes

#1. Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

Masao Abe

#2. The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means ... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.

Paul Rand

#3. To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God's gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271)

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,
ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.

C. G. Jung

#6. The idea that stories slavishly obey deep structural patterns seems at first vaguely depressing. But it shouldn't be. Think of the human face. The fact that all faces are very much alike doesn't make the face boring or mean that particular faces can't startle us with their beauty or distinctiveness.

Jonathan Gottschall

#7. A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.

Russell D. Moore

#8. The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. The complementarian position acknowledges that God created men and women equal in being but assigned different-but equally valuable-functions in His kingdom and that this gender distinctiveness complements, or harmonizes, to fulfill His purpose.

J. Ligon Duncan III

#11. Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. In the words of Jewish liturgical scholar Lawrence Hoffman, 'Jews do offer freely composed prayers ... But overall, it is the fixed order and content of Jewish prayer that gives it its distinctiveness and that demands the personal commitment to prayer as a discipline.

Lauren F. Winner

#13. You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

Ba Jin

#14. If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Arne Jacobsen

#15. When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.

Roland H. Bainton

#16. Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

Sherry Turkle

#18. The guy with Floyd's countenance should have a name like Isaiah or Abraham or Hezekiah. The name Floyd seems mundane for such an intriguing-looking man.

Davis Miller

#19. Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.

Bryant McGill

#21. Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

Jim Henson

#23. See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#24. The moment a student blinks his eye, he's already way off. The moment he tries to think, he's already differed. The moment he arouses a thought, he's already deviated. But for the man who understands, it's always right there before his eyes.

Linji Yixuan

#25. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Harold Bloom

#26. In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Emile M. Cioran