Status Quo Quotes - Page 17

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

  Shirley Chisholm

  Running, Odds, Voice

  "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.

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• Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Attitude, Opportunity

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole

  John Lennon

  Attitude, Political Revolution, People

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• We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ostriches, Hands, Issues

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• Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

  Alex Steffen

  Thinking, Optimism, Political

  "The Bright Green City". Interview with Arnie Cooper, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 2010.

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• Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

  Marshall Ganz

  Commitment, Dedication, Imagination

  Marshall Ganz (2010). “Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement”, p.8, Oxford University Press

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

  Seth Godin

  Art, Responsibility, People

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.85, Penguin

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• One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

  Michael Dell

  Business, Worry, Maintaining

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• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, People, Leader

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• When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Weekend

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• Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

  Steve Lacy

  Uprising, Threat, Originals

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• Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Profound, Humanity

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• Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

  Jacques Ellul

  Change, God, Christian

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• The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Risk, Want

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.91, Penguin

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• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  Gary Johnson

  Real, Party, Two

  "This isn't the year for ideological purity. Don't vote for Jill Stein" by Jill Abramson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2016.

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• To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

  Desmond Tutu

  Support, Sides, Injustice

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reform, Dialect, Facts

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• All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

  Sonia Sanchez

  Poetry, Political, Poet

  Sonia Sanchez, Joyce Ann Joyce (2007). “Conversations with Sonia Sanchez”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• ...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Degrees, Needs

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.159, David C Cook

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

  Seth Godin

  Art, Business, Creativity

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.81, Penguin

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• In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

  Phil Ochs

  Religious, Men, Years

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• Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Running, Dream, People

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 09, 2014

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• A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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