Lines shooting out of vertex ticks in maya?

Slugs

Hey all, I've recently been trying to learn the maya pipeline so I apologize if this is a newbie question.

What's with these annoying lines flagging each individual vertex in maya. It really pollutes my viewport and I can't seem to understand how to get rid of them. Any ideas?

Clark Coots

With object selected Display - Polygons - Vertex Normals

Slugs

Amazing, thanks

Bartalon

Side note, yellow ones are locked normals, green ones are not locked. You will need to unlock those normals in order to modify soft/hard edge configurations in those areas.