I grew up with the norm being three meals a day. You wouldn’t dream of skipping a meal.
It’s almost ironic sitting here watching stories about Norm’s courageous ‘battle’ with cancer. He actually did a bit on stage about how stupid that is. What battle? It’s your own body. Is it a win or lose thing?
The ‘inability to have a dialogue’ is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
If I audition for a job that I don’t get, to be honest with you, I’d rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.
I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.
We must make it clear that we won’t interfere in other countries’ elections and work to make that the clear international norm.
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.
I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it’s because you’re telling a story about racism or at least about race.
As a wrestling promoter, I believe that it has to be a unique, special situation. Intergender matches should be treated on a case by case basis. If they become the norm, then I don’t think it is interesting.
When meetings are the norm – the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem – they no longer work.
We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that… it seems like that’s the norm.
My parents always told me never be a follower, always be a leader. It’s very difficult to do, to step out and be different and not follow the norm. If you want what’s best for your team, you gotta be different.
I had to turn social media off. It was just crazy. Just to see the messages rolling through and people shouting, ‘Till beat Tyron,’ booking flights and booking hotels, that’s becoming the norm right now.
Well I don’t feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
I think success is a relative term. If you’re a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It’s exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
There’s no story if there isn’t some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it’s more or less the norm.
Hypersegregated inner-city schools – in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 – are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq – I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 – that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
