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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status ~ Laurence J. Peter
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Laurence J. Peter
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ~ Carl T. Rowan
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Carl T. Rowan
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. ~ Therese Fowler
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Therese Fowler
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. ~ Sarah Palin
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Sarah Palin
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. ~ Karl Barth
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Karl Barth
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
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. ~ Seth
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Seth
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. ~ Sandra Cisneros
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Sandra Cisneros
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work. ~ Seth Godin
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Seth Godin
Instead of challenging the status quo and trusting in your own abilities, they would rather you trust in government. ~ Eric Bolling
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Eric Bolling
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo. ~ Andrew Cuomo
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Andrew Cuomo
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. ~ Craig Ferguson
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Craig Ferguson
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo. ~ Gerry Adams
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Gerry Adams
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
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Ann Coulter
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. ~ Harold Pinter
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Harold Pinter
I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth. ~ Jeb Bush
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Jeb Bush
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo. ~ Donna De Varona
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Donna De Varona
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized. ~ Lupe Fiasco
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Lupe Fiasco
I love challenging the status quo. ~ Sara Ramirez
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Sara Ramirez
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
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Eliot Spitzer
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it? ~ Sheldon Adelson
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Sheldon Adelson
Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo. ~ Brian Klemmer
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Brian Klemmer
We lessen the sin of the world by joining the Lamb of God in bearing sin and pardoning sinners. But as the church as become a powerful institution, a consort with kings and queens, a confidante of presidents and prime ministers, our dispensing of grace has become distorted. We show grace to the institutions of systematic sin while condemning the individual sinner. It should be the other way around. It was never the "rank and file" sinners who gnashed their teeth at Jesus, but those for whom the present arrangement of systematic sin was advantageous. Jesus condemned the systematic sin that preserved the status quo for the Herodians and the Sadducees, but showed compassion to publicans and prostitutes. This is grace. But the church, courting the favor of the powerful, has forgotten this kind of grace. We coddle the mighty whose ire we fear and condemn the sin of the weak who pose no threat. We enthusiastically endorse the systems of greed that run Wall Street while condemning personal greed in the life of the individual working for the minimum wage. We will gladly preach a sermon against the sin of personal greed, but we dare not offer a prophetic critique of the golden calf of unfettered capitalism. Jesus and Saint Francis and Dorothy Day did the opposite. They shamed the principalities and powers, but offered pardon to the people. This is the grace of God the church is to embody. ~ Brian Zahnd
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Brian Zahnd
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. ~ Clark Kerr
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Clark Kerr
The opposing barristers were in tactical agreement (because it was plainly the judge's view) that the issue was not merely a matter of education. The court must choose, on behalf of the children, between total religion and something a little less. Between cultures, identities, states of mind, aspirations, sets of family relations, fundamental definitions, basic loyalties, unknowable futures. In such matters there lurked an innate predisposition in favor of the status quo, as long as it appeared benign. ~ Ian McEwan
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Ian McEwan
The status quo is working. ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you. ~ Annie Finch
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Annie Finch
The status quo is never news, only challenges to it. ~ Malorie Blackman
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Malorie Blackman
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
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Condoleezza Rice
Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth ~ Hazel Henderson
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Hazel Henderson
Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick on the trigger; indifferent, then obsessed, then indifferent again. They act out of a sense of responsibility and then resent and fear the burden of responsibility they have taken on themselves. Their effect on the world, not surprisingly, is often the opposite of what they intend. Americans say they want stability in the international system, but they are often the greates disrupters of stability. They extol the virtues of international laws and institutions but then violate and ignore them with barley a second thought. They are recolutionary power but think they are a status quo power. They want to be left alone but can't seem to leave anyone else alone. They are continually surprising the world with their behavior, but not nearly as much as they are continually surprising themselves. ~ Robert Kagan
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Robert Kagan
The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration in the USA are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes. ~ Marco Rubio
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Marco Rubio
Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo. ~ Martin Luther
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Martin Luther
I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that. ~ John Rowland
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by John Rowland
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo. ~ Al Gore
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Al Gore
Our nation today needs men and women who are bold enough to play on the field and passionate to change the status quo ! ~ Osunsakin Adewale
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Osunsakin Adewale
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
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Seth Godin
In Ferdydurke, Gombrowicz got at the fundamental shift that occurred during the twentieth century: until then mankind was divided in two--those who defended the status quo and those who sought to change it. Then the acceleration of History took effect: whereas in the past man had lived continuously in the same setting, in a society that changed only very slowly, now the moment arrived when he suddenly began to feel History moving beneath his feet, like a rolling sidewalk: the status quo was in motion! All at once, being comfortable with the status quo was the same thing as being comfortable with History on the move! Which meant that a person could be both progressive and conformist, conservative and rebel, at the same time! ~ Milan Kundera
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Milan Kundera
The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today that you're paying into a program that's going to there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right. ~ Rick Perry
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Rick Perry
Every time you make a contribution to an organization purported searching for a "cure,' such as the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the United Way, or any other such institution, you are helping maintain the status quo. Plus, you are helping researchers torture, usually for years and always for no reason, millions of helpless, innocent animals. ~ Paige Singleton
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Paige Singleton
Racism does not go both ways. There are unique forms of discrimination that are backed up by entitlement, assertion and, most importantly, supported by a structural power strong enough to scare you into complying with the demands of the status quo. We have to recognise this. ~ Reni Eddo-Lodge
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Reni Eddo-Lodge
If there is a main problem in American art today," says critic Tom Piazza, "it is not that we need the new to unshackle us from a suffocating and outmoded tradition. The new is constantly pumped out, by the ton and 24 hours a day, into the esthetic rivers, reservoirs and gullies of our culture, and nobody needs to go looking for it. With all the economic force of corporate profit and advertising behind it, pop culture, with its Billy the Kid ethos, has in fact become the new establishment. In a truly Orwellian irony, the new is the status quo."36 ~ James Bau Graves
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by James Bau Graves
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights. ~ Ralph Bunche
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Ralph Bunche
All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be. ~ John Gardner
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by John Gardner
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement. ~ H.L. Mencken
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by H.L. Mencken
I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo."
"Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht? ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is always being chased by the policeman (authority). Clowns are funny precisely because their shy hopes lead invariably to brief flings of (exhilarating?) disorder followed by crushing retaliation from the status quo. It delights us to watch a careless clown break taboos; it thrills us vicariously to watch him run wild and free; it reassures us to see him slapped down and order restored. After all, we can condone liberty only up to a point. Consider Jesus as a ragged, nonconforming clown
laughed at, persecuted and despised
playing out the dumb show at his crucifixion against the responsible pretensions of authority. ~ Tom Robbins
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Tom Robbins
In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how fucked-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem. ~ Ben Horowitz
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Ben Horowitz
Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn. ~ Barack Obama
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Barack Obama
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. ~ Gene Kim
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Gene Kim
Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [ ... ] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
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
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Theodore Beale
Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo. ~ Lorii Myers
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Lorii Myers
This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans. ~ Roger Goodell
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Roger Goodell
The grand illusion of committed love is that we think our partners are ours. In truth, their separateness is unassailable, and their mystery is forever ungraspable. As soon as we can begin to acknowledge this, sustained desire becomes a real possibility. It's remarkable to me how a sudden threat to the status quo (an affair, an infatuation, a prolonged absence, or even a really good fight) can suddenly ignite desire. There's nothing like the fear of loss to make those old shoes look new again. ~ Esther Perel
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Esther Perel
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized. ~ Paul Baran
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Paul Baran
Be rational' is what they tell you when you are having a sane reaction to an insane situation, and the rationale behind their conception of reason is FUCKED. Be rational. What it really means is assume your position in the status quo. Assume the position. ~ Tricia Sullivan
Challenging The Status Quo quotes by Tricia Sullivan
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