The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“In the second stage, once those who oppose the status quo succeed in weakening the authority of the existing order, they are… — Christopher L. Hayes Copy Share Image
If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends.… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. It is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
“The status quo is not your friend; in a competitive, down economy, the absence of change means death. Those who coast with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Renowned for stating his convictions in the form of a paradox, as above, Chesterton, along with anyone who has something positive or… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“If there is a main problem in American art today,” says critic Tom Piazza, “it is not that we need the new… — James Bau Graves Copy Share Image
I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Leadership is about having clear & grand vision, taking initiatives, possessing courage to question the status quo, ability to set large goals,… — Krishna Saagar Copy Share Image
“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“In every age, when real prophetic change begins to emerge, it happens through the brave and few who will challenge the status… — Jon Shirley Copy Share Image
But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“It takes a great personal audacity to question the status quo, to take exception to it, to redefine it, and, ultimately, decide… — Becky Vollmer Copy Share Image
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
America's tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won't work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the… — Joseph Adam Ereli Copy Share Image
A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“After some abandoned experiments with static compilation, we looked around and saw how successfully JIT techniques are being applied in the JavaScript… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the… — John Rowland Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
