“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.” IfsWantNeedsNormalProjectsIntellectualTownsArchitectureMaking MoneyArchitectUtopianDevelopersSponsors Author:Leon Krier
“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.” MeanBigsEarthFoundStarsCareersComedyOne ThingSweetNormalProjectsOrdinaryComicHelpfulOur RelationshipIconsAnnaDown To Earth Author:Chris Pratt
“A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.” ThinkingWaySelfWould BePsychologyNormalProjectsMatureMultiple Author:Miranda July
“We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsMightHurtKnownTelevisionNormalProjectsAvailableConnectedHungryIntimacyEaseSubstitutesShoppingClosestConsumptionPornographySolaceSustenanceConspicuous Consumption Author:Charles Eisenstein
“When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."” WantedOrderHouseMillionsNormalProjectsExtraordinaryAbandonAwardsContemptVacationEngineeringDefianceChuckAccolades Author:Bob Sutton
“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.” PeopleIfsWorldMindPersonsTwoDifferentHandsSeemsEyeWalksBrainNormalProjectsPhotographyCamerasEverydayPhotographerVisualsThrownClueOblivious Author:Bill Jay
“For sure I see so much in Sudan that is wonderful, normal life - young entrepreneurs starting up NGO projects, kids mucking around and being kids. Everything else that happens in normal life in any part of the world, and we never get that in our media coverage. We only talk about Sudan once it's in crisis, so we end up with a distorted sense of what daily life is like for a lot of people.” PeopleWorldEndsHappensKidsYoungLife IsWonderfulMediaNormalProjectsCrisisEntrepreneurStartingDaily LifeLife Is LikeCoverageNormal LifeSudanBeing A KidYoung EntrepreneursStarting UpMedia Coverage Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?” IfsFirstsLittlesImportantBigsTogetherGoalRealizingStepsFocusNormalProjectsHandleOrganizedFirst StepsBig ThingsSmall ThingsFinishingGet It TogetherLarge Things Author:Joyce Meyer