Status Quo Quotes
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The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.
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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.
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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.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.
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I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
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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.
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Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn’t.
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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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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.
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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.
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Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
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Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.
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He never once has made any emphasis on his last home game or his last game. It's just been status quo.
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I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
