“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?” IfsStillsRealSelfTodayFictionCarElementsNormalStandardsHollywoodScience FictionDrivingReal LifeWhat IfDefining1960sKnightsRidersScience Fiction MovieDriving Cars Author:Sebastian Thrun
“Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.” IfsIdeasWarHandsTodayPainViolenceBrotherNormalWeaponsConscienceDestructionRaisesFallenJustifyViolence And WarPain Death Book:Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith
“To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.” Would BeTodayChristianChristianityNormalAverageChristian InspirationalShockTestamentNew Testament Author:Vance Havner
“That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.” PeopleTodayPoliticalValuesFoundAttitudeGrowingChildhoodNormalOur ChildrenPrioritiesDevelopingValue Of Life Author:Tom Segev
“How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.” IfsKnowsEnoughWholeTodayWaterPerfectImpossibleAirKeysFitExerciseNormalSurvivalFruitToleranceDo You KnowVegetablesGrainJunkProteinVitaminsMineralsSurvival Of The FittestImpurityFruits And VegetablesWhole GrainsVitamins And Minerals Author:Jack LaLanne
“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
“Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.” StatesStoriesTodayUnitedUnited StatesDirectorsNormalNewsPressesThreatPlanningAlsVagueConferencesFbiAttorneyAl QaedaNormal LifePress ConferencesForeboding Author:Craig Kilborn
“President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again.” PeopleTodayPresidentAcceptingNormalCongressGet BackPresident BushBribe Author:Jay Leno
“I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to set up for ourselves in New York. It seems like being on vacation is like normal living, which is not very satisfying. It means we're figuring out what to make for lunch today, and that seems like such an absurd way to live. The issue of dealing with that doesn't seem to be so prominent back home. It sounds so silly and ridiculous, but it's really the way it is. We love what we do, so I prefer being in the studio; that's really living for me.” WayMeanHardFactsHomeSeemsTodaySoundIssuesWifeNew YorkNormalStudiosMy WifeRidiculousSillyAbsurdLunchSatisfyingVacationStressfulBack HomeWay To LiveProminentReally Living Author:Ryan McGinness
“A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal progression. It wasn't some crazy idea, it was just, "Can we start our own agency? Can we do this?"” PeopleYearsIdeasDoneTodayCrazyNormalPhotographerAgencyProgressionCrazy Ideas Author:Jeff Vespa
“I've been spoiled being in the fashion business. My son will be like, 'Mommy, 20 new pairs of shoes came today. How come?' Because I'm always telling him it's not normal to have 20 pairs of tennis shoes to try on before school.” TryingTodaySchoolFashionSonNormalShoesTennisPairsMy SonSpoiledPair Of ShoesTennis ShoesFashion Business Author:Gwen Stefani
“There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.” KnowsWantNeedsYearsDifferentWould BeTodayJobsResultsCompanyRolesTeamPositionNormalComfortableYears AgoHumbleEvolveNew ThingsLearning NewLearning New Things Author:Sophia Amoruso
“I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.” PeopleFeelsTodayAbleArtistCareersGoneTomorrowNormalStonesPeersLife SpanHere Today Gone Tomorrow Author:LL Cool J
“Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.” TryingWellsMayTodayChoicesAnimalForeverOne ThingNormalEatingAspectVicesAcceptableSurgeryVice VersaEating Animals Author:Jasper Fforde
“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
“Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.” TodayUsedSupportNormalUsed To BeMinimumReducing Author:Franca Sozzani
“Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to "try and err", marry, divorce, marry again.” PeopleTryingTodayYoungNumbersSawsEventsNormalDivorceDeterminedRisingOnce Upon A Time Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“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 lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?” TodayLostSoundHappenedNormalHorseCliffsCareless Author:Maggie Stiefvater