Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Status quo thinking is the premature rejection of deeply unfamiliar ideas; it is the enemy of originality.” — Jen Fraser 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 am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power,… — Luis A. Ferre Copy Share Image
There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man… — Hermann Joseph Muller 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
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably… — Laura J. Burns 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
“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
If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“You can either fit in or stand out. Not both. You are either defending the status quo or challenging it.” — Linchpin Copy Share Image
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. — Andrew Stanton 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
“The crucial lesson of Brexit and of Trump's victory, is that leaders who are seen as representing the failed neoliberal status quo… — Naomi Klein 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
“In business circles, this is known as the “status quo trap”:12 the preference for everything to stay the same. The gravitational pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American people want change. They don't want the same old health care system that's not affordable, that doesn't offer coverage to… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of having a disruptor like Donald Trump in the Oval Office was his ability to see things differently… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image