People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
“Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo.” — Brian Klemmer Copy Share Image
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable. — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
“It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo. — Kristin Linklater Copy Share Image
“I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
I think understanding where you are as an athlete is important. Creating a baseline so that you know in what direction you… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
“Chrome and Firefox users were 19% less likely to be absent from work, had higher sales, and received better customer satisfaction ratings.… — Edify.me Copy Share Image
“Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: "Humans," he scoffed. "Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I will say to China what needs to be said, including on its effort to unilaterally change the status quo by force… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
“One of the main reasons that MMM doesn’t deliver the benefits it should is because CMOs and marketers aren’t involved in the… — McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum Copy Share Image
“A human rights activist is the worst type of person to mess with. If I can choose an enemy between the worst… — Iveta Cherneva Copy Share Image
“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The single greatest threat to human progress isn’t a lack of original ideas; it’s our obsession with familiarity — with status quo thinking.” — Jen Fraser Copy Share Image
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
If we give up the rules-based international order, and allow changes to the status quo by force, the effects will also spread… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Individuals with lower cognitive abilities may gravitate towards more socially conservative rightwing ideologies that maintain status quo. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass.” — Alec Cizak Copy Share Image