Norm Quotes - page 2

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm. (Gelsey Kirkland)
My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities. View quote
Heather Bresch
If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm. View quote
Jim Gilmore
In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. View quote
Justin Sane
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now. View quote
Oscar Robertson
But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing. View quote
Richard Morris
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm. View quote
Robyn Hitchcock
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end. View quote
Robyn Hitchcock
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. View quote
Stanley Crouch
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. (Tyne Daly)
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair. View quote
Zak Orth
Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm. It is this notion - that our race defines us -- that Ralph Ellison so eloquently rebuts in his essay, "The World and the Jug." He sees the lives of black people as more than a burden, but also a discipline, just as any human life which has endured so long is a discipline, teaching its own insights into the human condition, its own strategies of survival. There's a fullness and even a richness here. And here despite the realities of politics, perhaps, but nevertheless here and real because it is human life. View quote
Clarence Thomas
The Gospel has to be the norm. View quote
Hans Küng
I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health. View quote
Frank Zappa
Training in listening, in statistical techniques and problem cause-and-effect analysis, in group problem solving, in sophisticated financial analysis (for everyone)-and then constant retraining, for upgrading and learning new skills-simply must become the norm, for realtor, banker, or high-tech wizard. View quote
Tom Peters
A passion for the infinite is daily presented as a sign of moral distinction, when in fact it can only occur in disturbed minds which accord the status of a norm to the very disturbance from which they are suffering. View quote
Émile Durkheim
Looking at the contemporary world, two things are obvious: democracy is doing rather badly, and democracy is doing very well. New states are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains. Democracy is doing very badly in that democratic institutions have fallen by the wayside in very many of the newly independent 'transitional' societies, and they are precarious elsewhere. Democracy, on the other hand, is doing extremely well in so far as it is almost (though not quite) universally accepted as a valid norm. View quote
Ernest Gellner
Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy. View quote
Eric Cantona
[A]lthough species may be discrete, they have no immutable essence. Variation is the raw material of evolutionary change. It represents the fundamental reality of nature, not an accident about a created norm. Variation is primary; essences are illusory. Species must be defined as ranges of irreducible variation. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
To challenge and to cope with this paradoxical state of things, we need a paradoxical way of thinking; since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events. It is not easy. We usually think that holding to the protocols of experimentation and verification is the most difficult thing. But in fact the most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought. (Jean Baudrillard)
The schooling system we have in the Western world is crazy – you're taken away from your parents at your most impressionable age and fed a load of bullshit and lies manipulated to make you think that the way we live in the West is stable and moral, when really it's neither. You come out of school with a one-track mind based on financial success; you're encouraged to become enslaved to the banking system. In school, I always felt, ‘Something's not right here' and I'm starting to find out what it is. Being outside of the norm gives you freedom of thought and that's something being suppressed in school and the media. If you have freedom of thought you get labeled as a crazy person or someone strange. View quote
Matthew Bellamy
The 'new theory of money and the cycle' which is spoken of in the opening paragraph is of course Hayek's. It was from Hayek that I began - where I got to will be seen. Even at the end, I was minimising my differences from Hayek. I could do so because, as I have elsewhere explained (Economic Perspectives, p. 141n), I still thought, like Pigou and Robertson, and Hayek, but by that time unlike Keynes, that 'we were talking about fluctuations, which, since they did not result in complete collapse or complete explosion, could not have engendered an expectation of going on forever. Booms could then be considered as times of high prices, slumps as times of low prices - with regard to some norm, which throughout the which throughout the fluctuations would not be changed, or not much changed'. View quote
John Hicks
Legitimation is the process by which a legislator is authorized to promulgate such a law as a norm. View quote
Jean-François Lyotard
With Gutenberg Europe enters the technological phase of progress, when change itself becomes the archetypal norm of social life. View quote
Marshall McLuhan