Quote by Ivan Turgenev

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses

Summary

This quote encapsulates the common human tendency to think that our way of doing things is the standard or "normal" way, making it difficult to comprehend or accept different approaches. It highlights the limited perspective we have, often leading to a lack of empathy or understanding towards those who have contrasting methods or opinions. It reminds us to challenge our assumptions, broaden our perspective, and embrace diverse perspectives rather than dismissing them simply because they differ from our own.

Topics

Conformity & Nonconformity

By Ivan Turgenev

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

Career Vocation

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time,

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Modern Modernism

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Pet

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. The

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

Funny

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the p

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

Friendship

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow five

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Richard Branson

Money

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Children

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a rec

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

Famous

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pourin

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler #148, Au

Baby Babies

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

Home

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantu

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Reality Science Physics Strange Particles Quantum

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a go

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Time Good