Norm Quotes

Norm Quote of the day

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

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.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."