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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.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Difficult Effort Situation Steps Effects Emotional Circumstances Lows Opposites Pressure Complaining Frustration Status Quo Compelled Opposing Venting

Author:Martha Beck

“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.”

Character Literature Grows Deals Situation Events Plot Logical Status Quo Sequence Initials Incidents Challenging The Status Quo Sequence Of Events

Book:Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life

Source: Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life

“The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."”

Want Looks Earth Culture Can Do Business Effects Products Hey Status Quo Feedback Loops

Author:Ray Anderson

“I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.”

Trying Stories Concern Sticks Currents Primaries Status Quo Continuity

Author:Grant Morrison

“The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.”

People Used Silence Shame Following Accepted Labels Routine Status Quo

Author:Margaret Cho

“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”

War Risk Middle Willing Conservative East Middle East Status Quo Factions Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.”

Practice Technology Theory Smart Preserves Revolutionary Status Quo Reactionaries Disruptive

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.”

Moments Situation Happened Mirrors Statements Status Quo Rearview Mirror Expendables

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.”

Law Audience Risk Lessons Taste Mass Expectations Strategy Corporate Originality Status Quo Laws Of Nature Axioms Artifacts

Author:A. O. Scott

“If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.”

Ifs Men May Order Force Sides Known Military Dangerous Standards Police Crisis Radio Elites Listeners Status Quo

Author:Ferdinand Lundberg

“In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.”

Way Feels Persons Hard Strange Hard Work Authority Understood Traditional One Way Just One Grades Status Quo Good Person Defiance Serials Being A Good Person Good Grades

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

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

White Males Persistence Categories Status Quo Maintenance

Author:Wesley Morris

“I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.”

Fighting Party Cutting My Friends Edges Status Quo Cutting Edge Turf

Author:Elizabeth May

“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.”

Effort Civilization Shadow Chaos Granted Guarantees Status Quo

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.”

“Public school system status quo is indefensible.”

School Status Quo Public School School System

Author:Barack Obama

“Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.”

Trying Fall Effort Mets Comfortable Resistance Reform Status Quo Fall Back

Author:Robert Fritz

“It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.”

Country Speak Singing Praise Uncomfortable Shakes Willingness Avoiding Status Quo Occasional Disruption Speaks Out

Author:Barack Obama

“The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.”

Thinking World Has Beens Imagination Violence Dangerous Outcomes Meals Status Quo Eucharist Congregation Drained

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“The status quo cannot work.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.”

Ifs Men Feels Ideas Hard Hard Work Bigger Status Quo Dissatisfaction Restlessness Brilliant Ideas Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

People World Character Seems Opinion Painful Spite Warning Confession Status Quo

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

Years May Doe Facts Dream Bigs Faces Building Truth Is Organization Trade Environmental Obligation Preserves Thirty Fifty Forty Establishment Status Quo Fifty Year Olds

Author:Michael Crichton

“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.”

Men World Years Believe Has Beens Three Lessons Currents Tendencies Score Status Quo

Author:Theodore Beale

“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.”

Believe Doe Real Helping Nations Answers Accepting Fantasy Economy Illusion Real Life Beloved Feds Status Quo Better Off Props Navigate Short Life

Author:Charles Hugh Smith

“Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.”

Men Persons Enough Government Past Political Opinion Share Type Hero Citizens Aim Prepared Admire Preservation Status Quo Preventing Exclusion Political Opinions

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“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.)”

Men Children Reading Loses Imagination Wonder Fantasy Talent Moon Method Pity Conclusion Steady Status Quo Absorbing

Author:Albert Einstein

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

Force Underestimate Status Quo Magnitude Never Underestimate

Author:John P. Kotter

“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.”

Way Want Happens Jobs Asks Challenges Organization Everyday Improvement Employee Status Quo Make It Happen Continual Improvement

Author:John Novak

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

Ifs Status Quo Can't Change

Author:Royce White

“I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.”

Accepting Status Quo Visa American Express

Author:Stephen Colbert

“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.”

“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.”

Firsts Ideas Hard Fall Support Struggle Essentials Models Organization Falling In Love Preserves Knees Status Quo Inclination Jerk Business Models Expired Deleting

Author:Seth Godin

“I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.”

Hate Natural Enemy Army Police Despise Status Quo Hate And Fear Natural Enemies

Author:John Lennon

“Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.”

Running Taken Train Factories Status Quo

Author:John Lennon

“The status quo is working.”

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Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.”

Ideas Happens Battle Tendencies Status Quo Uphill Battles

Author:Scott Belsky

“I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.”

Kind Wanted Culture Challenges Photograph Contests Status Quo Popular Culture

Author:Dawoud Bey

“At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Alternatives New Things Status Quo Old Things

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.”

Needs Believe Has Beens Reality Understanding Opinion Subjects Fit Versions Skepticism Status Quo Skeptical Lack Of Understanding

Author:David Icke

“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.”

Men Want Years Groups Males Dominant Preservation Status Quo Subordinates

Author:Marvin Harris

“We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.”

Hands Community Challenges Ability Leader Understood Police Leaving Status Quo

Author:Immortal Technique

“Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.”

Ifs Games Lines Quality Leader Products Entrepreneur Starting Definitions Superiors Relative Entering Status Quo Prerequisites Parity

Author:Gary Hirshberg

“To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.”

“I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration. The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.”

Years Reason Government Party Issues Keys Republican Six Vote Election Rewards Spending Immigration No Reason Republican Party Status Quo Inaction Federal Spending

Author:Bob Barr

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

Loses Comfort Zone Be You Comfort Zone Status Quo True Potential

Author:Greg Plitt

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

Seeing Pushing Status Quo Hacking How Far You Can Go

Author:Michael Demon Calce

“I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.”

People Influence Ordinary Surrender Corporate Status Quo Ordinary People Insistence

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends. This is mainly because many labels are afraid to take big risks on something that sounds too different than the status quo.”

Ifs Want Different Bigs Artist Song Sound Risk Labels Trends Songwriters Status Quo

Author:Wendy Starland

“The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.”

Men Way Want Happens Girl Groups Crime Concepts Refuse Shade Status Quo

Author:Kate Zambreno

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