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• The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

  Seth Godin

  Mediocrity, Want, Fit

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• If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

  Satoru Iwata

  Challenges, Nintendo, Something New

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• Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Educational, School

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Vision, Catalyst, Discontent

  John C. Maxwell (1999). “Twenty One Indispensable Qualities of a Leader”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.

  William Stringfellow

  Biblical, Darkness, Risk

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• Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

  Cornel West

  Successful, Greatness, People

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• I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who
  has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'.
  It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.

  Ayn Rand

  Ideas, Intellectual, Honor

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• I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

  John Foster Dulles

  Dream, Believe, Years

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• Maintaining the status quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself. Do not ever think that you have made it; do not ever be staisfied by what you have done. Drive yourself for the rest of your life. If you do not move, you become paralyzed. Develop your potential to the fullest, for you, too, can wake the sleeping genius at will.

  Kim Woo-jung

  Moving, Sleep, Thinking

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

  Bell Hooks

  Goal, Feminist, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

  E. J. Dionne

  Religious, Heart, Views

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• Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Winning, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.35, Penguin

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• Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

  PZ Myers

  Silence, Addresses, Favors

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• In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Desire, Mediocrity, Invisible

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• If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Simple, Competition, Zoom

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• The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust - and then tries to make it more accountable.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Cities, Southern

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.

  Roger Martin

  Mind, Path, Imagine

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Seven out of 10 Americans know the country's headed in the wrong direction, that in a very real sense that this is a clear choice between change in the status quo and I've always been telling crowds, the other side says if you like your status quo you can keep it.

  Mike Pence

  Real, Choices, Like You

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Opportunity, Government, Long

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Rebel, Flags

  "From Pine Ridge to preacher pedophilia, Lupe Fiasco album aims to incite". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2012.

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• there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Guy, Intellectual

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• I'm just telling you in my universe, people that I know who voted for Donald Trump and want the Trump agenda or most of it, I don't know anybody who is content for nothing to happen, status quo while the Republicans and Trump bicker. I don't know anybody who wants any more of this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Republican, Universe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The status quo is simply unacceptable.

  Brad Henry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

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