Quotes About 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.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.

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

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm.

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'

The Gospel has to be the norm.

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.

My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.

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

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

I think cyberbullying someone who states their opinion, especially a woman, is sadly a norm these days, and it happens daily to not just stars/actors. We have to consistently condemn and shun it so that it never gets the power it doesn't deserve to have over the society.

I realized that nobody paid attention to eyebrows. In Romania, it was the norm. I thought, 'This is Hollywood. We work with the most incredible, beautiful models and actors and this is important.'

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

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

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.