Quotes About Norm

Half of the people in the world are below average.

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

The body schema is not perceived--It is the norm or privileged position in contrast to which the perceived body is defined. It is prior to explicit perception.

A perceived thing is... a certain variation in relation to a norm or to a spatial, temporal, or colored level, it is a certain distortion, a certain "coherent deformation" of the permanent links which unite us to sensorial fields and to a world.

The word"boundaries" often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the"norm" because we think of it as being"risky" or because we're afraid of failure. It's easy to settle for average or normal. That's why the majority of us do!

who argued that the nomos revealed to Moses on Sinai was equivalent to the law of nature, the supreme norm of both knowledge and virtue.23

L'hétérosexualité allait tellement de soi qu'elle n'avait pas de nom [par le passé]. C'est la norme sociale. C'est le contrat social. C'est un régime politique.

Many of the routines followed in hospitals today were created during a time when formula feeding was the norm.

it was harder than others to remember that evil was still front page news. Goodness and order were so much the norm they needn't be reported.

Nobody finds himself by searching merely for himself. Personality is born out of conflict with a norm.

White privilege is not an overt act of racism but the simple observation that people of white skin are historically and culturally dominant, and therefore seen as the standard or norm.