Status Quo Quotes - Page 4

• The status quo is simply unacceptable.

  Brad Henry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

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• A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Risk, East

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• Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

  Gary Johnson

  Opportunity, Common Sense, Political

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• Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Opportunity, Maintaining The Status Quo

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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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• 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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• I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

  "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.

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• Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Games, Challenges

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  Rick Perry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Messages, Challenging Status Quo

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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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• Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.

  Terry Leahy

  People, Creative, Not Happy

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• People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Men, Games

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• The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

  Mark Sheppard

  Peace, Harmony, Masquerade

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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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• 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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• 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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• She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Accepting, Dies

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• Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

  Bill Mauldin

  Civilization, Made, Has Beens

  Bill Mauldin (1947). “Back Home”

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• Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.

  George Polya

  Night, Law, Light

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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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• The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

  Seth Godin

  Leaving, Mediocrity, Building

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• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Real, Trying, Honest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.

  Al Gore

  Meaningful, Keys, Speaks Out

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• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

  Marvin Bower

  Change, Jobs, Mean

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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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