Status Quo Quotes - Page 12

• I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

  Stephen Colbert

  Accepting, Visa, American Express

  "There's Nothing Funny About Colbert's SuperPAC" by Peter Overby, www.npr.org. June 30, 2011.

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• The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

  Bill Taylor

  Unique, Leader, Marketing

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• I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

  Seth Godin

  Falling In Love, Struggle, Organization

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• I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

  John Lennon

  Hate, Army, Police

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Challenges, Doe

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• My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

  Vikas Swarup

  Book, People, Challenges

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• Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Way, Doe

  Harlan Ellison (2016). “Slippage”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

  Jeff Merkley

  Jobs, Children, Energy

  "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

  Joan Jett

  Cute, Girl, Names

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. February 25, 1998.

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• People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

  Carly Fiorina

  Party, Tired, Offering

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

  Michael Bennet

  People, Challenges, Care

  "The Politics of 'Yes'” by Sen. Michael Bennet, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2009.

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• It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

  Charley Reese

  Believe, Men, Foolish Man

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• Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Mean, Progress, Results

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• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, People, Events

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• To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.

  Leon Eisenberg

  Mistake, Believe, Men

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• This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

  Richelle Mead

  Winning, Games, Soul

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.50, Kensington Books

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• I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

  Viola Davis

  Writing, Color, Roles

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

  Tom Green

  Dark, Important, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Powerful, Responsibility

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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about it—relief is really the status quo, a negation of the suffering, a nothing in itself. It is the way things were before the pressure and struggle began.So, is it a step back? A regression?Or is it an opportunity to regroup, start over, and move in a different direction?Use your moment of relief well.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, Moving, Struggle

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• Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

  Orrin Woodward

  Leader, Something New, Efficient

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• It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Government, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's speech in US Senate, June 21, 2006.

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Rights, Doors

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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