Self-Distinction Quotes

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way.

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses.”

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

Any time I do something, I want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

I used to perform stunts that made me stand distinctly among my peers.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I think you shouldn't get my music confused with who I am or who we are, because Yung Lean, from the beginning, is like a character created by me. Yung Lean was everything that Jonatan wasn't. And so me, as a person, and my views on things are certainly different than Yung Lean's views, so you should definitely not get those two mixed up.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.