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“Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.”

Mean Success Affair Status Quo Conservatism Love Affair Aversion

“I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.”

America Force Change Gone News Greed Status Quo Defenders Time For A Change

Author:William J. Clinton

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

People Giving Feels Running Political Voice White Accepting Office Majors Capable Males Despite Ran Candidates Hopeless Wealthy Odds Sheer Presidency Status Quo Looking Good Refusal

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe”

Ideas Progress Concepts Catastrophe Grounded Status Quo

Book:Selected Writings: 1938-1940

Source: Selected Writings: 1938-1940

“Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.”

Feelings Turns Leader Produce Organization Historical Focused Contentment Stable Status Quo Great Leader Outfits

Author:John P. Kotter

“Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.”

People Persons Earth Christian Jesus Term Wealth Concerned Expected Christian Inspirational Make Sense Obsessed Fulfilling Status Quo Obeying Crazy Love Book Obeying God

Book:Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study

Source: Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study

“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.”

Want Problem Happiness Opportunity Results Attitude Practice Knowing Focus Habit Mental Health Status Quo Dissatisfied Payoff

Book:The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success

Source: The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success

“There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.”

People Ifs World Kind Two Fall Change Behinds Growing Victim Setting Settings March Status Quo Maintaining Falling Behind Maintaining The Status Quo

Book:Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

Source: Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

“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.”

Humanity Force Organization Profound Collaboration Status Quo Overwhelmed Really Deep Learning Organization

Author:Peter Senge

“Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.”

Needs Sex Differences Sexuality Resistance Status Quo Maintaining Hierarchy Orientation Insistence Regimentation Sex Differences

Book:Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice

Source: Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice

“Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.”

Thinking Men Way Want Kind Important Different Hands Hate Choices Fighting Given Sex Change Animal Mistake Violence Creatures Stability Passive Status Quo Women Want Different Animals

Author:Eric Van Lustbader

“When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.”

Mean Ends Values Causes Community Religious Greater Highest Loyalty Significance Status Quo Justified Continuity

Author:Pearl Abraham

“Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.”

Blame Males Hip Hop Humble Rap Queens Rebel Attributes Rapper Patriarchy Status Quo Dominance Testosterone Humble Beginnings Male Dominance

Author:Chuck D

“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.”

“I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.”

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Author:Andrew Cuomo

“At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.”

World Should Heart Sides Religious Views Principles This World Higher Standards Argument Status Quo Religious Faith Higher Standards

Author:E. J. Dionne

“Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism”

Way Made Given Goal Study University Feminist Activism Revolutionary Academic Commodity Status Quo Submerged

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“Maintaining the status quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself. Do not ever think that you have made it; do not ever be staisfied by what you have done. Drive yourself for the rest of your life. If you do not move, you become paralyzed. Develop your potential to the fullest, for you, too, can wake the sleeping genius at will.”

Ifs Thinking Made Done Moving Sleep Interesting Genius Passing Passings Made It Harsh Status Quo Maintaining Rest Of Your Life Paralyzed Maintaining The Status Quo

Author:Kim Woo-jung

“I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.”

World Want Years Believe Dream Happens Young Spirit Belief Nations Support Victim Inevitable Champion Imperfection Status Quo Unsatisfied

Author:John Foster Dulles

“I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.”

Ideas Term Mankind Honor Offers Intellectual Valuable Streams Distinction Mainstream Apologizing Status Quo Standing Out Innovators Stagnant Swamps

Author:Ayn Rand

“The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.”

“Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.”

Vision Status Quo Discontent Catalyst

Book:Twenty One Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

Source: Twenty One Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Change Leadership Leader Progress Future Burning Fascinated Status Quo Restless Making Changes Impatient Dissatisfied Better Future Friction Ifs And

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“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.”

Knows Kind Business Worry Bigger Instinct Notion Status Quo Competitors Maintaining Preconceived Notions

Author:Michael Dell

“Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.”

People Difficult Creative Status Quo Not Happy

Author:Terry Leahy

“People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.”

People Men Looks Games Sports Records Eras Fierce Status Quo Feats

Author:Dave Winfield

“Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.”

Self Able Ignorance Depends Bears Truth Is Harder Self Knowledge Status Quo

Book:Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

“Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.”

Thinking Long Artist Parent Challenges Mistake Growing Up Environment Growing New York Long Time Confused Status Quo Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo Jingoism

Author:Claire Danes

“The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.”

Social Enemy Security Status Quo Social Security Medicare Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Mitch Daniels

“Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.”

Silence Argument Strategy Favors Addresses Silence Is Status Quo Maintaining Refusal

Author:PZ Myers

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”

People Political Politics Social Failing Periods Awake Changing The World Status Quo Social Change Liability Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo Social Activism

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”

People World Want Needs Dream Running Upset Changing The World Status Quo Mills Disruptive

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.”

Country States United Cities United States Grew Late Grew Up Survival Southern Status Quo Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Angela Davis

“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.”

Humans Past Fall Dying Ego Working It Status Quo Past And Present

Author:Richard Rohr

“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.”

Thinking Way Mind Use Best Way Status Quo Veils Relentless Manufacturing Pierce Clouded Lean Manufacturing

Author:Shigeo Shingo

“Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.”

Ideas Reality Cutting Balance Judgment Criticism Judgement Ties Crucial Meaningless Status Quo Constructive Input Gauges Constructive Criticism

Author:Shigeo Shingo

“Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.”

Culture Social Challenges Responsibility Practice Environment Theory Status Quo Complacency Theory And Practice

Author:Samuel Mockbee

“If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession’s responsibilities.”

Ifs Community Challenges Responsibility Students Inspire Responsible Profession Architecture Status Quo Reminding Subversive Nudge

Author:Samuel Mockbee

“Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it”

Ideas Might Successful Commitment Organization Innovation Resistance Acquire Status Quo Successful Organizations

Author:Nathan Rosenberg

“The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.”

Solutions Status Quo Idaho

Book:The Uses of the University

Source: The Uses of the University

“We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.”

Different Country Generations Structure Radical Preserves Status Quo Previous Generations

Author:Paul Weyrich

“Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.”

May Failing Politician Promise Status Quo Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Ian Anderson

“Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'”

Accepting Progress Prejudice Status Quo

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.”

Want Might Purpose Culture Status Quo Maintaining Continuity

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.”

“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.”

Thinking May Has Beens Success Constant Contribution Status Quo Meddling

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.”

Peace Harmony Status Quo Defenders Masquerade

Author:Mark Sheppard

“Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.”

People Wells Young Justice Successful Worst Greatness Social Justice Pursuit Being Successful Telling The Truth Courageous Worst Things Unjust Status Quo Pursuit Of Justice

Author:Cornel West

“Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.”

Giving Motivational Opportunity Winning Organization Marketing Remarkable Status Quo

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.”

Ifs Simple Picks Competition University Status Quo Reliance Microsoft Researchers Zoom

Author:Guy Kawasaki

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