I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.
. . . we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.
Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community?
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.
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.
In the U. S. , I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U. S. there isn't.
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)
Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?
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.
Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.
Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.