Georges Canguilhem Quotes

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

Georges Canguilhem

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Poverty

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Government
  • Wood
  • Sheep

• Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Mind
  • She
  • Girl

• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Great
  • Want
  • Small

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Day
  • Myself

• «We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • True

• There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Golf

• Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle... I have to have those relationships.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• 'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up - and everyone who is 10 and up, basically - can use their gifts and talents to help the world in a way that's unique to them.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Good
  • Music
  • Real

• If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

  

  Claron McFadden
  • Character
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• When you have a lot of time, when you're not working a full-time job, you have a lot of time to question things and think about things. Some of it's about romantic relationships, some of it's about drugs, about religion, about this mass of humanity traveling through life doing all this crazy stuff, not really knowing why or for what.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Humanity

• I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Kids
  • Passion

• An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

  

  Georges Canguilhem
  • Diversity
  • Sickness
  • Anomaly