Abnormal Quote by William James Download Open image “To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abnormal Normal Study Understanding Way
“One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.” — Milton Erickson Copy Share Image
“Why would I want to go and get all normal when being abnormal is so much more interesting?” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Normal is just the deviation from that what seems to matter of only that what is not in general doing so, usually. — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image