Quotes About Divergence

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

Things around here have deviated from the usual

Michelle's tastes and mine often diverged: She preferred rom-coms, while according to her, my favorite movies usually involved "terrible things happening to people, and then they die.

One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline.

It's easy to envision how you'd change the behavior of people who think just like you do, but the people whose behavior you're trying to change often don't think like you—and, therefore, don't respond as you might expect.

The observers of the time were detecting a phenomenon that we now largely take for granted: that mass behavior can often diverge strikingly from the desires of the individuals that make up the mass.

Ir a lo fácil o decir la verdad no son solamente dos opciones distintas. Son dos caminos diferentes que atraviesan la vida. Son dos formas totalmente distintas de existir.

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.

Not everyone gets the same message from the same words - or the same results from the same books

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.

I got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

There's always going to be people who say, 'This ain't country.' But that's fine; that's how it is. Those same people aren't listening to Sam Hunt, aren't listening to FGL. But obviously, a lot of people are.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

I believe everyone is imperfect in their way.

The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly told her students, "You're absolutely unique, just like everyone else." Projects are like that. Whatever sets a project apart, it shares other characteristics with projects in its class.