New Norms Quotes

In the past Russia needed liberty to live better. It must now have it in order to survive…. The challenge of our times is an overhaul of the system of values, the forging of a new consciousness. We cannot build a new country with old thinking …

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable.

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

Nowadays, we have to break the molds to what it means to be a model in 2016.

For the only time in my career, I came in and met Tony [Richardson] for the part - I did not read, I just met with him - and in the middle of the meeting, he told me that I had the part [in The Hotel New Hampshire]. There was never, "Well, thank you, and we'll have my people call your people." There was none of that kabuki that goes on now endlessly for even the smallest role.

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they don't want that. They're like, 'OK, I heard that. Next!'

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 don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

It's a different world.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

The country is called to the practice of new customs. The walls and surfaces must be cleaned. But minds too must be cleansed, for that is where the error was born.

Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.