Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the norm. Trying your best and making it is not the norm — it’s propaganda. Of course I play with notions of hype, too. . . The entire Comatonse website is a sarcastic hype-engine, sprawling forever, overwhelming the viewer with nothingness.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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.
I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.
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.
. . . we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.
I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.
Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.
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?
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.