Differentness Quotes

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

I'm not one of these new supermodel girls on Instagram in bikinis. I'm different, but that's okay.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different... which is just untrue.

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.

I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

We don't do things the same way everyone else does. We relish being different. We see that difference as an element that makes us more compelling to the consumer.