Standout Quotes

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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
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Criss Jami (Venus in Arms)
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Being kind is one of the hardest thing to be in high school because you're so terrified of being cut down yourself that you're always on your guard. But don't be like that. Be kind and you will be truly different. A standout. Unique and happy.
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Wendy Wunder (The Probability of Miracles)
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Be the one to stand out in the crowd.
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Joel Osteen (Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential)
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Everybody is standing, but you must stand out. Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough! Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard! Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles! Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?
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Israelmore Ayivor
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No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda
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Natsuki Takaya (Fruits Basket, Vol. 7)
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If you want to survive, you need to be different. You have to stand out of the crowd.
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Pooja Agnihotri (17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure)
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You need to stand out in the crowd and be unique. This is the only way that can lead you to success.
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Pooja Agnihotri (17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure)
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A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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... and you might say β€œno, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were” and I will say β€œwatch me” for I never did this to fit in or stand out but to live.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out.
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Johnnie Dent Jr.
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He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you’re lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.
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Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
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If you're going to be a fucking rock star go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on stage; they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.
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Lemmy Kilmister
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You can’t ignore the importance of being unique, remarkable, and differentiated in a highly crowded market.
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Pooja Agnihotri (17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure)
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Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.
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Nikki Rowe
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Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape." -Gylfie
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Kathryn Lasky (The Capture (Guardians of Ga'Hoole, #1))
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No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.
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Sanhita Baruah
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Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not by arguments, but by focusing on what you do every day. If they change it, fine; if they don’t, fine. The good news is that you are pursuing excellence!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.
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Amit Ray (Walking the Path of Compassion)
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Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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Refuse to become a victim of your circumstances and give a lift to your potentials each and every day against the wish of any obstacle you encounter!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.
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Adele Devine (Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School)
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When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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Don't sit on the fence; break it and move out! Don’t be confined to the little things you do; the sky should be below your limit!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Daily Drive 365)
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Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.
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Nadège Richards
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The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.
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Candace Bushnell (Lipstick Jungle)
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If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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To be Outstanding is to do the same thing others have done in a different way. But to STAND-OUT is to do what no one has ever done before. Being outstanding is good, but STANDING-OUT is better. So Dream, Explore, Discover, and Stand Out!!!
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Olaotan Fawehinmi
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Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Shaping the dream)
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In a world filled with flaky people, those that honor commitments and do what they say STAND-OUT. Integrity is currency.
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Dr. Matthew Loop
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If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.
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Israelmore Ayivor (101 Keys To Everyday Passion)
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Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'.
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Shaun Hick
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Better to embrace the discomfort of being different than the comfort of fitting in.
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Ogwo David Emenike
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In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right and because you stand out doesn't make it wrong. Just find a path that you can defend.
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Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye
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You want to stand out in the crowd; yet you fear noise.
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Victor Vote
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The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you’re lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don’t remember those for very long. No, not very long.
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Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
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Class. You either have it, or you don't. It's not determined by how you dress, your level of education or your social standing. It's conveyed in how you carry yourself and treat others. Some folks go to great lengths to "prove" they make the grade. Ultimately, people with class are outstanding without trying too hard to stand out.
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Carlos Wallace (Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings)
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We live in a world that has so many people striving to look normal to a bunch of people that are abnormal, in order to be accepted. What is normal is realizing that being accepted comes at a price that robs the world of the uniqueness that God has created you to be every time you minimize your personality to make someone like you.
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Shannon L. Alder
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In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.
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Anthony Liccione
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It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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To stand out from the crowd requires you to stand up and stand for what you believe.
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Gift Gugu Mona
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Drop down all those imaginations and feelings that "Success is built on Success". A HERO can be built from ZERO. Begin from where you stand with what you have!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Wake up for your call no matter how many times you fall; Stand tall and stretch yourself once more. Rise up from the ground, roll the ball and be hopeful you will score!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Dream big!: See your bigger picture!)
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Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Brands that stand out from the competition are purposefully disruptive or different
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.
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Don Roff
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Until you get enough of enough, the "enough" that is never enough, you dare not quit! If your good is better, your better can be best; your best too can become excellent!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Most people who are global achievers were once victims of greater circumstances than yours, but they had one word to sum it up; "They never give up!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Here's what I learned over the years. Know the mission, what is expected of you and your people. Get to know those people, their attitudes and expectations. Visit all the shops and sections. Ask questions. Don't be shy. Learn what each does, how the parts fit into the whole. Find out what supplies and equipment are lacking, what the workers need. To whom does each shop chief report? Does that officer really know the people under him, is he aware of their needs, their training? Does that NCO supervise or just make out reports without checking facts? Remember, those reports eventually come to you. Don't try to bullshit the troops, but make sure they know the buck stops with you, that you'll shoulder the blame when things go wrong. Correct without revenge or anger. Recognize accomplishment. Reward accordingly. Foster spirit through self-pride, not slogans, and never at the expense of another unit. It won't take long, but only your genuine interest and concern, plus follow-up on your promises, will earn you respect. Out of that you gain loyalty and obedience. Your outfit will be a standout. But for God's sake, don't ever try to be popular! That weakens your position, makes you vulnerable. Don't have favorites. That breeds resentment. Respect the talents of your people. Have the courage to delegate responsibility and give the authority to go with it. Again, make clear to your troops you are the one who'll take the heat.
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Robin Olds
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I will teach my daughter to color outside the lines, to make mistakes, to take risks, and not be afraid to fail. I will teach her that even when the world tries to knock her down the best revenge is getting up and forging ahead. I will teach her to be brave enough to be different, to stand up for what's right. To never quiet her voice to make someone else feel comfortable. Because no one remembers the person that fits in. It's the one who stands out that people won't be able to forget.
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Nancy Arroyo Ruffin (Letters to My Daughter: A collection of short stories and poems about Love, Pride, and Identity)
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Some people try to color inside of the lines, when they are really meant to color outside of the lines and create masterpieces. Don't try to fit in, when you are meant to stand out and be different. You are a true work of art, don't ever try to change that.
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Jeanette Coron
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To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I find it difficult to converse with robots.....Don't be afraid to be an independent thinker.
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Just Jewel
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Don’t be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Shaping the dream)
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Be kind and you will be truly different. A standout. Unique and happy.
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Wendy Wunder (The Probability of Miracles)
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Stand out or Fade out! for β€˜me-too’ Brands have a shorter shelf life
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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But the standouts in the generations immediately preceding Cleopatra’s wereβ€”for vision, ambition, intellectβ€”universally female.
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Stacy Schiff (Cleopatra)
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In a world where the larger majority of society is careless, it’s the small percentage of people who make the choice to be different and prioritize relationships that stand out.
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Farshad Asl (The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity)
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If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your dreams will stand.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Shaping the dream)
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If you want to be outstanding, you have to get away from the crowd.
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Utibe Samuel Mbom (The Event Usher’s Handbook)
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To stand out from the crowd, requires you to stand up and stand for what you believe in.
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Gift Gugu Mona
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Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange...CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.
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Shelley K. Wall (Chloe's Secret)
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Self-esteem is the garden in which passion bears success flowers. Most people can’t stand out to stand for what supposed to belong to them just because; they feel it can’t be theirs, so it’s not theirs.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Daily Drive 365)
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Without differentiation you have no brand
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!
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Israelmore Ayivor
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certain concrete signs of optimism were no longer as central a part of the school experience: the smell of pencils, for instance, with their suggestion of woodshop and campgrounds and the promise of some precocious kid’s standout in-class essay.
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Meg Wolitzer (The Uncoupling: A Novel)
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Refuse to be small no matter how many times people insist on squeezing you. The same people who carelessly call you β€œHey” are the same people who will cheerfully call you β€œHi” when you continue to drive your life positively!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Daily Drive 365)
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Without deviating from the norm, even rebelling at times, there wouldn’t be any advancement. Throughout all of history, no one truly found themselves by following and adhering. They did so by embracing their individuality and challenging the dominant way of thinking; by standing out, not by fitting in.
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Omar Cherif
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Find your Voice or risk fading out
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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I hope for peace on earth and for all beings to realise their inner potential.
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Nikki Rowe
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Be abnormal; being normal is too predictable for your brand.
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Almost everyone can describe the bottom of the mountain.
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Roy A. Ngansop
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Your goal here is not joining the crowd but standing apart.
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Pooja Agnihotri (The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For)
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Don't be a mediocre standout and be a boss!
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RJ Yolande Mendes
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Most people are tormented by the conflict between their fear of standing out and their desire to be the center of attention.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Don’t be retarded; excellence is β€œstatus quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final products to ever stand out of your personal actions!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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What makes an amazing artist? It's not his ability to impress but his skill in touching people's lives through his craft. When he does even a simple piece of work with not much adornment (fanciful words, colors) and it moves the hearts of his audience, it is considered to be a masterpiece! A true artist lets people enter a different kind of sanctuary out of the conventional. What makes his work standout is its uniqueness -if it has a HEART.
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Elizabeth E. Castillo
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The standout, though, was Maisie May, who’d been growing her hair longer. Ernest had never seen her in a corset before, and he wondered what battle had been fought to get her into one of those spoon-billed contraptions. He imagined an angry, feral, six-toed cat, with long claws and no tail, hissing while being dunked into icy water.
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Jamie Ford (Love and Other Consolation Prizes)
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There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. Folks tend to confuse both. The right way isn't always the best way, and the usual way leaves you lost in the crowd of the common. Then, there's the 'unusual way', which might be right or 'wrong'; but when it births success, it usually has the power to invalidate the right way and the usual way.
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Ufuoma Apoki
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With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?
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Chinonye J. Chidolue
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If she couldn't manage to be extraordinary by nature, she reasoned the next best thing would be to attempt something extraordinary.
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Angela N. Blount (Once Upon a Road Trip (Once Upon a Road Trip, #1))
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You are uniquely unique, don’t settle for less and never try to fit in
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Diamonds do not need anyone's permission to shine.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Those who lift trophies of success are those who do what they do without stretching their necks to see β€œwho else is doing what?
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Israelmore Ayivor (101 Keys To Everyday Passion)
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You need to add a new voice inside your head, one that says, β€œSo what?” What if you don’t get married by 30? So what? What if you haven’t paid off your loans or debt by 35? So what? What if you’re not a stand-out success by 28? So what? If you were to achieve everything you wanted in life by the age of 30, then what would you do for the next fifty years? You have time. You don’t have to get to everything right now.
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Alexandra Robbins (Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived (Perigee Book))
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Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Kare Anderson (Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others)
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We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you’re lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don’t remember those for very long.
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Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
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Some moments, hours, days, last longer for some people than others, depending. Daily life, whatever it may be really, is practically composed of two lives, said Forster: the life in time, ticking, marching by, regular, implacable, and the life by values, slowing or accelerating, shrinking or expanding, condensing or prolonging. The same sixty-second spans experienced as short minutes, as elongated minutes (as thin minutes or thicker minutes). As separated minutes: distinctive pockets, or stand-out portions of detached, delimited time.
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Kate Briggs (The Long Form)
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The old practice of doing your job and keeping your head down doesn’t work that well anymore. As an experienced professional, you must be out there and if you are not visible you might as well not exist. And if you are looking to change careers or jobs, visibility is not a luxury β€” it’s a necessity.
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Binod Shankar (Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager)
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The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you’re lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts
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Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
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Diablo had rounded up this band of standout demons for his planβ€”and Rimuru, oblivious to all this, just casually gave them names after a moment’s thought, an incredibly reckless move. As a result, every demon reborn here had obtained power beyond the natural ways of the world. They were now an unimaginable force, a great assemblage of demons feared by all. Despite numbering less than a thousand, they were an army all by themselves. They would later come to be known as the Black Corps, Tempest’s most powerful military and a horrifying symbol of fear. And the Black Corps was born the moment they were unleashed from their capsules.
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Fuse (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Light Novel), Vol. 11)
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Have you ever watched kids on a playground? There will be one kid taller than all the rest. He’s out there playing, and he’s the tallest one. But he doesn’t know he’s tall. Maybe on some level it registers with him that the other kids in his class are shorter, that he has to look down to meet their eyes when he’s close to them, but he never really thinks much about it. β€œLater, if the difference stays and he remains taller than others, somebody will say something about his height. Maybe they’ll tease him and call him a freak. Then he’ll fully realize he’s taller than normal. He still won’t think much about it, though, until others point it out to him all the time.
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Jaxon Reed (The Empathic Detective (The Empathic Detective #1))
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When I first started to run the Jingu Gaien course, Toshihiko Seko was still an active runner and he used this course too. The S&B team used this course every day for training, and over time we naturally grew to know each other by sight. Back then I used to jog there before seven a.m. β€” when the traffic wasn’t bad, there weren’t as many pedestrians, and the air was relatively cleanβ€”and the S&B team members and I would often pass each other and nod a greeting. On rainy days we’d exchange a smile, a guess-we’re-both-havingit-tough kind of smile. I remember two young runners in particular, Taniguchi and Kanei. They were both in their late twenties, both former members of the Waseda University track team, where they’d been standouts in the Hakone relay race. After Seko was named manager of the S&B team, they were expected to be the two young stars of the team. They were the caliber of runner expected to win medals at the Olympics someday, and hard training didn’t faze them. Sadly, though, they were killed in a car accident when the team was training together in Hokkaido in the summer. I’d seen with my own eyes the tough regimen they’d put themselves through, and it was a real shock when I heard the news of their deaths. It hurt me to hear this, and I felt it was a terrible waste. Even now, when I run along Jingu Gaien or Asakasa Gosho, sometimes I remember these other runners. I’ll round a corner and feel like I should see them coming toward me, silently running, their breath white in the morning air. And I always think this: They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?
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Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)