Normal Quotes - Page 32

• What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

  Abraham Maslow

  Average, Psychology, Spread

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

  Jim Lovell

  Stars, Moon, White

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• I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Father, Writing, Poet

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Youd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

  Annie Parisse

  Crazy, People, Buttons

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• People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

  Arsene Wenger

  People, World, Rewards

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• Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them. It is a revolutionary force in that it seeks to overturn the existing order, but it differs from the spirit of Marx and Lenin in that it never proclaims itself openly.

  Tom Bethell

  Mean, Order, People

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• I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Girl, Swimming, Elements

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• The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person in the world and if this man's life is in danger, the whole world is kind of in peril in a way, because the leader of the free world could fall into the hands of terrorists.

  Roland Emmerich

  Stars, Fall, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

  Michael Ian Black

  Humans, Hard, Human Beings

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

  Nell Zink

  People, Okay, Wanted

  "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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• It means a lot that fans feel connected to us and care about us, and that means the world, because that's what we want. We don't want them to feel like we're unattainable because we're just like them. We're all normal kids but somehow we got lucky when we picked up a guitar.

  Taylor York

  Mean, Kids, Guitar

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• The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Mind, Consciousness

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.63, Vintage

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• I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Teacher, Love Is, Silence

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• Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.

  Chrisette Michele

  Goal, Brave, Anxiety

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• What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

  Daniel Quinn

  Failing

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• I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

  Chris Lilley

  Boring, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

  Craig Newmark

  Want, Moments, Behavior

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• It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.

  Alana Blanchard

  Thinking, Surfing, Tiny

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• Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.

  Alana Blanchard

  Kind, Feels

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• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  Jesse Schell

  Brother, Track, Cameras

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Cowboy, Technology, Government

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• Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Acceptance, Boys

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• In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Mutation, Worms, Life Span

  "Sugar Shortens Life Span in Worms", abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2009.

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• So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life And Death, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 1), 1932.

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