#norm

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#bit #criticism #falter #going #good

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#just #life #live #make #normal

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

I feel more Scottish than Norman. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #i feel #more #norman #scottish

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#composition #enormous #fantasy #good #good taste

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#machine #more #normal #nothing #than

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#all day #buy #car #clothes #day

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#crown #divided #enormous #estates #government

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#difference #enormous #europe #russia #western