Quotes About Normality

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. Look! we're saying. WE'RE normal! THIS is the average! We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I

They seemed perfectly ordinary. This, Elliott deduced, was because they were burying their insanity deep beneath a façade of normality.

We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look!" we're saying. "WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!" We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.

We see ourselves as non-conformists but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look," were saying, "we're normal. This is the average." We're defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

Look! We're saying. We're normal! This is the average! We're defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.

Normalno?? to pierwszy symptom ?miertelnej choroby.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

I've had a couple of people - prominent coaches - walk into an office, shut the door and say, 'What's it like, not coaching?' They're scared. They're scared not to have that. And I'll tell them, 'You know, it's different. You're not going to replace coaching. But there's some normality that's out there, and that's also kind of refreshing.'

people are not the product of the exceptional but of the general—of the normality of their place, and time, and race

Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.

They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon professional strong men, and scarcely looked normal at all. And they talked interminably and loudly. From their bouncing mental health ordinary ill-balanced mortals shrank in alarm.

A cup of tea would restore my normality. [ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay ]

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.

Five to one against and falling …" she said, "four to one against and falling … three to one … two … one … probability factor of one to one … we have normality, I repeat we have normality." She turned her microphone off—then turned it back on— with a slight smile and continued: "Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Please relax. You will be sent for soon.

Ripristineremo la normalità appena saremo sicuri di cosa sia in ogni caso il normale.

seventy percent of human beings fall in the average or below-average range in intelligence. In other words, more than two-thirds of all human beings are average, which is stupid enough, or they're clinical morons.

Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to provide justifications for what they are doing or are about to do, they relieve us of what would otherwise be an intolerable burden.

Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It's a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

the collective madness which is called normality... the madness that masquerades as sanity... For what is the perception of madness, but the perceiver's perception of sanity? What is that perception but what collective society has decreed sanity to be?