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• We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

  Atul Gawande

  Talking, People, Way

  "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

  Francis Fukuyama

  Levels, Behavior, Ethical

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• The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

  Masi Oka

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Acting, Gaming, and Math Science With 'Searching For Sonny' Star Masi Oka". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Thoughtful, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Space, Experts

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do it, testosterone doesn't build up, femininity comes, but I have always said that castration is not the right way. A person should go for complete sexual reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, psychological counseling.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Community, Choices, Psychological

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead of punished. Risk taking is the norm instead of the exception. Some companies have already embraced this type of culture change with impressive results.

  Marty Neumeier

  Thinking, Design, Risk

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because that's the expected norm, right? I felt I was a good match: here's an accomplished poet, and he's also gay and Latino.

  Richard Blanco

  Gay, Guy, Poet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let's reach the students who will abide by a "yes means yes" standard in sexual behavior and reeducate them to use it. And as more and more of them use it, others will adopt it too. We're on our way to a new social norm and that's a beautiful thing.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Beautiful, Mean, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous eighteen years? This is the essential conundrum. Can we teach these relatively young dogs new tricks? I believe that we can.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Dog, Teenager, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's become such a cultural norm that people brag about it: "Oh yeah, you did that? I did this." Keeping up with the Joneses used to be about "I have the bigger house and car," and now it's much more about how much stuff you can cram into your calendar.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Car, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course, that's completely preposterous, but that's how I grew up. What is the norm by which to judge wordiness? I think I'm less wordy than Madonna.

  Stephin Merritt

  Mother, Thinking, Judging

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Over the past three decades, markets and market thinking have been reaching into spheres of life traditionally governed by non-market norms. As a result, we've drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society.

  Michael Sandel

  Past, Thinking, Economy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, College, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I agree with O'Toole that custom and comfort are impediments to change. However, it is important to recognize that resistance to change is logical as well. The new "change masters" literature seems to take change as the norm. It isn't. Humans naturally see change as risky because it is risky, just as mutations in genes are mostly destructive. You would not want to go to work were everything changed every week! The phone system, the office assignments, who reports to who, and the whole set of job expectations.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Office, Expectations, Important

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Attitude, Real, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• For years, more women were steered toward the studio or toward being a reporter. If that's what you want to do and that's what you love - by all means, go do it. That's OK to be ambitious and do things that are out of the norm if that's the route you want to take. We're already seeing women breaking down those barriers in what was once male-dominated. There are opportunities for women to fill those roles.

  Beth Mowins

  Mean, Opportunity, Ambitious

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a new kind of world. And that's why I think as important as the issue of climate change is, it's even more important than it seems because if we can't evolve very quickly, new norms to deal with issues like climate change, we're not going to be able to survive in the kind of world we've created. So I think, really, the whole nature of democracy, of governance, of global community and of solving the kinds of problems of the 21st Century are really at stake.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Community, Challenges

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and affect climate in a global basis. This is shocking, this is amazing! No one in the 18th Century would have believed that anything like this were at all possible and I don't think we have, as part of our common sense, morality, norms and values that are really responsive to those kinds of issues, to the kind of power that we now are able to exert over the future and over people who live very far from us.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, People, Common Sense

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Erosion, Language

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• To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

  Garrison Keillor

  Tuna, Sandwiches, Walter Mondale

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• There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

  Marcel Proust

  Abnormal, Homosexuality, Normal And Abnormal

  1921A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Sodome et Gomorrhe'.

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

  Guy Picciotto

  Thinking, People, Distraction

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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Eating Well, Surfing

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