“The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.” ThinkingWayMindNormalHabitual Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.” ThinkingMenWritingAnimalPositionNormalFunctionTeethBathroomBrushingNormal Things Author:Rod Serling
“I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.” ThinkingIdeasPowerfulNormalConnectionsLike MeVersionsTwinsSiblingVery PowerfulMystiqueTriplet Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveAgeFallKnownMiddleKeysHabitTruth IsDiseaseNormalApproachMindfulnessWake UpEverydayPatternsFalling ApartMiddle AgesPortalMidlife Author:Christiane Northrup
“My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.” ThinkingTryingParentUnderstandingReligiousPoorBrotherProtectNormalMy BrotherBrothers And SistersAlleysPoor Family Author:Alissa Nutting
“I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.” ThinkingInterestingTalkingHeroNormalRelateFlawedOutlawRenegadesAnti Hero Author:Tod Goldberg
“I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.” ThinkingSometimesGuyBalanceNormalMoody Author:Matt Berninger
“I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really what`s been happening.” ThinkingNeedsPresidentNormalHappeningsGunBarackCombatPresident Barack ObamaNew Normal Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.” ThinkingTryingPersonsFeelingsInterestingParticularConversationNormalHopefully Author:Joel Stein
“I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.” ThinkingSoundNormalLogical Author:Paul Lansky
“I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy.... You know the new song is called Mental.... I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don't think that I am a completely normal person.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingKindPersonsSongEasyHappenedNormalResponsibleConstantRemindersOcdNew Songs Author:Shane Bunting
“I call myself good crazy because I am a crazy normal. But who is normal really? Are you normal? Maybe you are, but I don't think a lot of us are normal. I think a lot of us are scared to say that we are a little crazy. I'm a little crazy that is just the way it is. I look in the mirror now and I like who is looking back at me. I am comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. I have let a wall down.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksLittlesCrazyWallNormalComfortableFirst TimeSkinsMirrorsScaredLooking Back Author:Shane Bunting
“It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.” ThinkingMindDoeHardJobsFacesUsedActorsWaterNormalMadnessFilledScreensComicDesertWorriedDramaticSentimentsAfghanistanPullingGood JobWhiskeyArcsBakersTangoAfghanFeyFilled In Author:David Edelstein
“In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.” ThinkingSeemsGuyCrazyRocksNormalPhenomenonThis GuyIndie Rock Author:Tom Scharpling
“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.” PeopleThinkingNormalHollywoodDedicated Author:Angelina Jolie
“It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.” ThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentRealDifferencesRecordsNormalWindowOppositesAlbumsStoresReal LifeDifferent WaysThrownCategoriesIpodsJust SayingRecord StoresPlaylists Author:DJ Spooky
“In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing - in other words, Truth must be established.” ThinkingNeedsMindPlayWillingNormalPerversionThinking Right Author:Sri Aurobindo
“When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentHappensLife IsSocialStarsWalksRoomsBecomingNormalPopsEngagementAwkwardReally CoolPop Stars Author:Matthew Healy
“I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was, of course, about consensual sex being something that the government can't regulate. But really in a more fundamental sense, what it was saying, "Look. Gay people are normal people, and they get to live normal lives. They're not criminals by virtue of the fact of being gay."” PeopleThinkingLooksFactsGovernmentCoursesSexJusticeOpinionVirtueGayNormalFundamentalsCriticalCriminalsGay PeopleNormal LifeBeing GayAntony Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.” PeopleThinkingDifferentTogetherHouseChildhoodTypeNormalFamiliarLakesRelatableDifferent PlaceGet Together Author:Steve Carell
“Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansMeanStillsCertainOrderI BelieveHuman BeingsAcceptingEnemyNormalCapablePhilosophicalOutlookMean People Author:Elie Wiesel
“I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'” ThinkingKnowsFeelsDifferentMotherFatherParentOur LivesGayNormalAssumptionAlcoholicsOur FatherAbnormalGay Parents Author:Amy Richards
“Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.” ThinkingWayFirstsMomentsTodayAbleChallengesHalfMinesNormalUniqueCommitmentChaosBackgroundsMidstRelativeI Have LearnedTriggersWay Of ThinkingDefaultCognitivePremature Author:Romany Malco
“I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.” ThinkingStoriesBehaviorNormalTradeChecksDefinedManhoodConquestDisrespectful Author:Nate Parker
“I think the "trick" is you have to really want to do it. You're embracing more of the world. Which is great. We're all in the world together, you know? And the models in the show who are "plus size," they're not in a special place, they're not wearing differently styled outfits. They're just beautiful girls who are in the show, like normal. Everything's normal. That's how it should be!” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantShouldShowsTogetherBeautifulGirlSpecialNormalModelsSizeTricksPlusSpecial PlacesOutfitsBeautiful GirlPlus Size Author:Christian Siriano
“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesWalkingNormalTownsBritishLondonNormUnkind Author:Ewan McGregor
“When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since.” IfsThinkingKnowsIdeasStatesMomentsAbleCarInternetProveNormalMessagesAdvertisingHeyGoogleProfitableClicksDeliveringRight MomentPrimacy Author:Tim Wu
“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.” ThinkingGivingMadeWantedStrongOur LivesTypeHusbandNormalBoringMy HusbandQuarrelsNormal Life Author:Indira Gandhi
“Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.” PeopleThinkingWantKindPersonsSelfStoriesInterestingPayNormalRegardMonsters Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.” PeopleThinkingUseCompanyNormalLots Of MoneyDividendsShareholders Author:Jamie Dimon
“Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.” IfsThinkingTogetherFightingCausesBrotherNormalArguingDisagreementLiving Together Author:Seungri
“I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingYearsHas BeensUseHappensSchoolRememberValuesToo MuchPiecesStrangeNormalHorribleQueensFiftyShopsSilverReceivingCoinsMonetaryJubileeMonetary Value Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I think British people for example can handle better their own poorness. The image of their poorness. But in France, people don't handle it very well. Either you are normal or ... if you are poor you better not show it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsShowsPoorExampleNormalBritishHandleFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantGovernmentClassIssuesFiveLike YouTerribleRight NowNormalWesternNineOfficialsWestern WorldElected Officials Author:Edward Snowden
“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.” ThinkingMenMadeBeautifulFormDifferencesFireFashionHolyNormalShoesRevelationsMutualWealthyPassagesEnginesHomageLyricalSterlingFootwearPerfectly Normal Author:William Gibson
“If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingSelfHappensTogetherEnjoyConsciousnessStageFrontsNormalConsciousOvercomingBlowWideTendenciesThings To DoSelf ConsciousDoing YouSelf ConsciousnessNormal Things Author:Bruce Springsteen
“The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLittlesHas BeensRunningPoorLevelsNiceCrazyTrumpNormalShould HaveBiggerPressesWingsSurfaceNarrativeRacistClueEmployedShould Have BeenRight WingMilitantWeird Things Author:George Saunders
“I often think about the idea that augmentation has become the new normal. When you start to augment and filter yourself because you think you should, you're kind of putting your worth in other people's hands, rather than having that worth come from within.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindIdeasHandsNormalFiltersNew Normal Author:Nelly Furtado
“What I remember from [the first meeting with Samuel L. Jackson] was that he was a friendly, animated kind of guy. His screen image is a hard boiled intimidating kind of character. That's what I remembered thinking, 'Boy, this guy seems like a normal guy.'” ThinkingFirstsKindHardCharacterSeemsRememberGuyBoysNormalMeetingsScreensRememberedFriendlyThis GuyAnimatedIntimidatingSamuel L Jackson Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“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
“I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's fine for them. But I'm such a free spirit, I feel more alive when I've got somewhere to go.” ThinkingFeelsKidsSpiritBrainAliveDogFineNormalBlowFree SpiritNormal Family Author:Kenny Chesney
“I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.” ThinkingLanguageSoundRichTerribleNormalFillingTerrible ThingsPerfectly NormalSomali Author:Warsan Shire
“In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsBigsMightLastsFilmNamesRealizingInterestingBehindsSituationWalkingOffersNormalWho I AmCinemaPresentation Author:Julianne Moore
“I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.” ThinkingTryingWould BeFunTrumpNormalCaricatures Author:Barry Blitt
“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.” PeopleThinkingHumansStillsCharacterStoriesProblemIndividualSpaceHalfKnownFourFeetHugeNormalSixStandingFascinatingStorytellerFrustratingJohnsonFormidableIrritatingSpace Between Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCommunicationConversationNormalBoundaries Author:John Bishop
“Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."” IfsThinkingWayShouldHumansHas BeensRealEnoughCertainNamesSimpleBrainProductsBehaviorNormalShoesStoresFamiliarAdvertisingTennisCriticizeShould IHuman BehaviorEnough TimeNikeBrainwashTennis Shoes Author:Mark Hosler
“I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.” IfsThinkingHeartLittlesMy HeartNormalFasterHypochondriac Author:Antonio Banderas
“I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.” ThinkingI CanStoriesMy OwnPoorRoomsGrewNormalGrew UpVansAlaskaSuburbs Author:Lisa Loeb