Norm Quotes

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

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

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

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

It's good to do things that are out of the norm.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

The extraordinary's the norm.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

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.

Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.