Status Quo Quotes - Page 14

• Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

  Jay Samit

  Opportunity, Management, Threat

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.132, Macmillan

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• 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

  Financial Education, Challenges, Want

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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• There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

  Umair Haque

  Reality, Disruptive

  "From The Vault: Umair Haque: Redefining How We Measure Economic Growth". Interview with Dylan Ratigan, www.dylanratigan.com. December 2011.

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• The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo
  ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Political, United States, Doe

  Condoleezza Rice's remarks at press briefing, August 6, 2006.

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• Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK.

  Josh Linkner

  Mistake, Creativity, Leader

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• We don't differ with the government on the demands [on Iran], but we totally reject how Bibi is handling it. Bibi sacrificed good relations with the U.S. to keep the status quo on the Palestinians. He poked the [Obama] Administration in the eye on settlements just to appease right-wingers

  John F. Kerry

  Eye, Government, Israel

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• There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

  Garry Kasparov

  Women, Competition, Example

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Howard Schultz

  Business, Discipline, Intuition

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.309, Rodale

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• It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Maintaining The Status Quo, Expansion

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• There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.

  Hermann Joseph Muller

  Men, Ideas, Eugenics

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• The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

  Saul

  Spiritual, Decay, Materialism

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• At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.

  Daniel Suarez

  Issues, Passing Away, Transition

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.46, Penguin

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• The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

  Roxane Gay

  Should, Fine, Notion

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Thinking, May

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.34, Bantam

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• Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Hate, Eye

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

  Craig Ferguson

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Goal, Wife, Feminism

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

  Joss Whedon

  Needs, World, Way

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• I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.77, Crown Forum

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• Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Issues, Subjects

  Ted Dekker (2005). “The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Humorous, The End Of The Day, Challenging The Status Quo

  "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.

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• Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

  Eliot Spitzer

  People, Desire, Challenging The Status Quo

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• Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.

  Rob Lowe

  Boys, Two, Comfort

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.303, Macmillan

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• This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

  Richelle Mead

  Winning, Games, Soul

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.50, Kensington Books

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• I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Black

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