Status quo Quotes · Page 8

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

— Laurence J. Peter

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

— Chirlane McCray

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not…

— Grant Morrison

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

— Brianna Wu

“Vision is what pulls at our emotions and creates desire to challenge the status quo.”

— Fast Company

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That…

— Winnie Byanyima

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their…

— Henry Miller

“Racism, prejudices and fear of changing the status quo are so deeply embedded in our ruling class that there is a silent…

— Mae Brussell

If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will…

— Samuel Mockbee

As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square…

— Sam Graves

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In…

— Óscar Arias

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting,…

— Shulamith Firestone

The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan 'revolutions' were…

— Priti Patel

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move…

— Rutger Bregman

The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure…

— Ray Anderson

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace…

— Toni Morrison

“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life…

— Frederick Vanderbuilt

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier…

— Peter Dreier

Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very…

— Ted Dekker

If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status…

— John Lennon

“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected…

— Thomas Merton

It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because…

— Anonymous

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

— Harsha Bhogle

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

— Howard Schultz

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

— Seth Godin

“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.”

— Frank Furedi

“There is never a status-quo: If you are not sure something is not getting better, you can be sure that it is…

— Vijay Shankar Sharma

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

— Michael Laudrup

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

— Seth Godin

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

— Devon Aoki

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

— Michael Demon Calce

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

— Wesley Morris

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

— Robert Kiyosaki

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.

— Jeff Fitzgerald

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

— Benigno Aquino III

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

— Shirley Chisholm