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• Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

  Greg Plitt

  Comfort, Be You, True Potential

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

  Michael Demon Calce

  Hacking, Pushing, How Far You Can Go

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Men, Past

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• The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Voters, Republican

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

  Margaret Cho

  Law, Taste, Modesty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Reflection, Israel

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

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• [ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

  Neil Young

  War, People, Together

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• It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

  J. C. Squire

  Devil, Lasts, Dignity

  "In Continuation of Pope on Newton" l. 1 (1926) See Pope 11

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• If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.

  Susan Rice

  People, Criticism, Skins

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Philadelphia, Issues

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Together, Different

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Artist, Reality, Peaceful

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• The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.

  Tony Blair

  Two, Interesting, Unity

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different.

  Maria Bartiromo

  President, Different, Economic

  Source: wwd.com

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• Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Visions Of The Future, Skills, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Perfect, Leader, Political

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Powerful, Responsibility

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• The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

  Martha Beck

  Emotional, Thinking, Frustration

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• The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

  Wole Soyinka

  Giving Up, Challenges, Together

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• I think the policies, for the most part, that [Hillary Clinton] will put in place are not going to make positive changes. There'll be more status quo. She'll certainly be good for some groups of people. Whatever.

  David Cross

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• John Akers once said that changing IBM's culture was more difficult than getting elephants to dance. Of course it's really difficult, as Lou Gerstner also found out years later. The title of his own book is Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? He and his top executives were change masters at IBM. All organizations, especially the larger ones, will always need change masters. Dissatisfaction with the status quo and efforts to improve it should be encouraged rather than discouraged. Regrettably, that is often not the case.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Book, Effort, Culture

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

  Seth

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Many couples have never had a conversation about sexuality and sexual boundaries. The presence or lack of sex, the quality of it, the satisfaction and dissatisfaction, the unmet needs. An affair upsets the status quo by not only bringing the subject of sexuality to the forefront but every other aspect of their relationship as well. An affair yields conversation that should have happened in the beginning, but that people were afraid to have because, well, what would that mean about their relationship?

  Esther Perel

  Couple, Mean, People

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

  Alan Green

  Teenager, Fall, Listening

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Events, Plot

  Elizabeth George (2011). “Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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