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Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.
John P. Kotter
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Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.
Greg Plitt
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
Seth Godin
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Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
Cindy Gallop
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Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
Steve Lacy
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The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Walter Benjamin
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To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Uta Hagen
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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
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A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.
Helen Mirren
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Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
Seth Godin
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There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.
John le Carre
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There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
Umair Haque
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If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
Jeanette Winterson
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Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
Nigel Farage
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Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.
Jack Graham
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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.
Marshall McLuhan
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
Shane Claiborne
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It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.
Seth Godin
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It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.
Seth Godin
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The status quo is simply unacceptable.
Brad Henry
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The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
Roxane Gay
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
Jack Kemp
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The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
Clark Kerr
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I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
Andrew Stanton
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We can walk together to change the status quo.
Ken Wyatt
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The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
Richard Powers
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
Ellen Hopkins
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
Ellen Glasgow
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The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.
Royce White
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Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.
Garry Kasparov
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When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.
Michael Demon Calce
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Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.
Ted Nugent
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Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.
Orrin Woodward
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Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
John C. Maxwell
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I'm just telling you in my universe, people that I know who voted for Donald Trump and want the Trump agenda or most of it, I don't know anybody who is content for nothing to happen, status quo while the Republicans and Trump bicker. I don't know anybody who wants any more of this.
Rush Limbaugh
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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
Cynthia Ozick
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Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.
Scott Baio
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The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.
Gene Kim
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The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.
Howard Dean
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I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
Stephen Colbert
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I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
John Lennon
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If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.
James Wolfensohn