“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.” MindArtSometimesStatesCommonWonderExerciseSkillsNormalHighestStandardsArt IsRefuseSatisfiedJudgementDestructiveWorks Of ArtState Of MindSensibilityIrrationalInexplicableNormalityNaturalistClassicistsState Of Wonder Author:Herbert Read
“It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.” KnowsSeemsCommonNormalExoticUtah Author:Brigham Young
“When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.” PeopleMenSeemsJesusCommonSpeechNormalClaimsCommon SenseLockedFreedom Of SpeechOutrageousPsychoticLocked UpMartiansMadhouses Author:Thomas Szasz
“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)” PeopleNeedsWellsPersonsImportantFeelingsArtistCommonCuttingNormalPerceptionEmpathyPraiseObservationChainsFrostThoughts And FeelingsHornets Author:Randall Jarrell
“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.” ShouldLongIdeasLawCoursesHouseCommonEventsOughtCallingDegreesNormalIllusionErrorsNotionStupidityFinishedFirmRisenResidualLaw Firms Author:Alain de Botton
“Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!” PeopleViewsCommonCrazyNormalPoint Of ViewBunchCommon SenseCrazy People Author:Sun Myung Moon
“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant” ShouldHumansArtMadeHuman BeingsCommonTalkingExerciseBehaviorNormalArt IsUniversalCaringSignificantMemorableOccupationSocializing Author:Ellen Dissanayake
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.” MatterPhilosophyProblemEyeRunningTodayGrowsCommonSubjectsFashionIndustryNormalPicksCorruptionFallenResurrectionGesturesConsideringMetaphysicsConfrontationSubject MatterDeckProfundityHappenstanceHearsay Author:Martin Heidegger
“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.” PeopleIfsWayLittlesIdeasSometimesWholeCharacterUseInterestingCommonPaintingNormalNegativeIntentionMonstersReactionsSympatheticMonstrous Author:Chris Mars
“The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.” IfsMatterWould BeCommonReturnNormalInvestingExpectedFatsInvestorsRelativePassiveDistributionOutliers Author:Eugene Fama
“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.” PeopleWellsStillsTwoEndsSometimesBodyEarthWaterWalksCommonGreaterDiseaseNormalSixPercentAreasDistanceEnvironmentalSurfaceEastChainsPondsParasitesStewCholeraEast AfricaTyphoidDysentery Author:Marq de Villiers
“I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.” WayGivingTwoSelfHomeCertainAnswersCommonCareersAwarenessAmountLessonsOffersOfficeNormalSelf AwarenessManagersCandidatesInterviewsRestaurantsHotelWillingnessOne TimeSeniorWorkplaceGeneral ManagerHome Office Author:Chip Conley
“Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.” MeanPoliticalLyingCommonHabitTruth IsNormalIntellectualSicknessTelling The TruthDisgustingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectness Author:Ali Sina
“The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.” WellsMayUseChristianSpiritCommunityChurchCommonExistenceGenerationsTreeCreationKeysBearsNormalFruitPatternsAppearanceChristian LifeDespiteRhythmMaturityGodlyDiscernmentVineyards Author:Michael Horton
“Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.” PeopleWantEndsWholeWantedCommonBoysLaughingAcceptanceDadNormalMy DadAcceptedWhole LifeNosesWipePeanutsScrewed UpPeanut ButterGood Boy Author:Christopher Titus
“There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10% of the population affected) and that these experiences exist on continua with healthy or 'normal' functioning: instead of the world falling into two groups (the psychotic and the non-psychotic) people vary in their disposition to psychosis and only a minority of people who have these experiences require or seek help.” PeopleWorldTwoHelpingFallCommonStudyGroupsHealthyNormalEvidencePopulationMinoritiesAffectedDispositionVaryPsychoticPsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.” WaterCommonSubjectsNormalLogicMathematicsAgreeSnowCommon SenseConsiderationObserversTheoreticalVaguenessVapour Author:Catherine Wilson
“Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.” SelfLife IsCausesCommonSacrificeHolyNormalTasksUnityEverydayEveryday LifeIndispensableLife Is LikeSelf Sacrifice Author:Eric Hoffer
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.” HeartCommonAcceptingNormalDrsSymptomsAcheNormal Life Author:John Irving
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.” CommonNormalDiversitySocial JusticeSexualityWitHeterosexualityHeterosexuality Is Author:Dorothy Parker
“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.” IfsMindRealityCommonVisionHavensPeriodsNormalAvailableGuidesCommon SenseDataInterpretationMadmenDope Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.” StatesEnoughLastsCommonHavensDegreesNormalIndependentUniversityCommon SenseFrontiersSchooledPublic EducationUniversity DegreesSheltered Lives Author:Sarah Palin