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• The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Civilization, Effort, Shadow

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• Public school system status quo is indefensible.

  Barack Obama

  School, Public School, School System

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, 2006.

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• You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Long, World

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Lent and Easter Wisdom from Henri J. M. Nouwen: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with Nouwen's Own Words”

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• In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

  Rollo May

  Sycophants, Dissent, Insurgent

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves of the lessons contained in 6,000 years of recorded history, we have a tendency to believe that the current status quo is pretty much how the world has been and how it will always be.

  Theodore Beale

  Believe, Men, Years

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• Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Real, Short Life, Believe

  "Here's The Sad Truth About The 'Best Job Growth Since 2006'". www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

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• Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

  Charles Koch

  Creative, Challenges, Embrace

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.80, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Reading, Moon

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• Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

  John P. Kotter

  Underestimate, Force, Magnitude

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• You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

  John Novak

  Jobs, Organization, Challenges

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• If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

  Royce White

  Can't Change, Ifs

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• The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

  Bill Taylor

  Unique, Leader, Marketing

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• Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Country, Class, Would Be

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

  Nomi Prins

  Thought Provoking, Irreverence, Living My Life

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• The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Views

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• Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Moving, Majority

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• The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Helping

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• And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

  William Styron

  Silly, Writing, Today Life

  "Conversations with William Styron".

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• I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, Challenges, Would Be

  "Dr. Oz on Complementary Medicine: 'Challenge the Status Quo'" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. August 31, 2009.

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• A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Dragons, Champion

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

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• The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The next great Internet revolution is coming, AOL founder says" by Blake Snow, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2013.

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• In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

  Nomi Prins

  Self, Hands, Thought Provoking

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• I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

  Seth Godin

  Falling In Love, Struggle, Organization

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• In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Social, Accepting, Process

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.38, Rowman Altamira

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