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
“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
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if… — Gary Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
From the Equal Pay Act to the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equality Act through to the minimum wage and Sure Start,… — Rachel Reeves 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
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken 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
It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans'… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do… — No I.D Copy Share Image
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha'… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
Under the status quo in Washington, our government has fought too often for the privileged and the few. — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
“Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it—and were often tainted by it.” — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
