Norms Quotes

Asperger`s syndrome helped make the movies. The symptoms of this developmental disorder include early precocity, a great ability to maintain masses of information, a lack of ability to mix with groups in age-appropriate aways, ignorance of or indifference to social norms, high intelligence, and difficulty with transitions married to a preternatural ability to concentrate on the minutiae of the task at hand. This sounds to me like a job description for a movie director.

Here`s a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn`t work because a lot of them got sick. That`s the conclusion. You don`t necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can`t program emotion.

The officers on our (training) board were involved in training operations at their respective departments - not the purchasing departments, ... They followed all relevant conflict-of-interest regulations at their departments, and the grant of stock options did not violate Taser`s code of ethics nor industry norms.

As far as privatization is concerned, we will follow the international norms, and all foreign companies have to comply with international standards.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Our efforts to reduce inflation are working; inflation here has now converged to euro area norms. This inflation figure is well down from inflation rates of between 4 percent and 6 percent recorded between 2000 and 2002.

If norms change, the military has to adapt to the changes or get left behind.