Top 100 Disrupt Quotes
#1. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#2. As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it from the inside. Everybody can change something, but nobody can change everything.
Rick Falkvinge
#4. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
J. Edgar Hoover
#5. Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar
#6. If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.
John Kiriakou
#7. It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.
Jiang Zemin
#8. I've thought often about why - why?! - anyone, especially other women, would try to disrupt feminist work that combats violence. What in the world could be the point of that? The only reason I've come up with, and I think it makes sense, is fear of becoming that "impure" woman.
Jessica Valenti
#9. Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
Wole Soyinka
#10. Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.
Charles Benbrook
#11. I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class.
MC Paul Barman
#12. The most efficient way to use military power is to disrupt emerging powers before they can become even marginally threatening.
George Friedman
#13. We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
Richard Branson
#14. Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
Craig Venter
#15. Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.
Demetri Martin
#16. To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..
Antonia Young
#17. If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?
Barack Obama
#18. Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.
Allan G. Johnson
#19. I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.
Kathleen Hanna
#20. There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.
Stieg Larsson
#21. Don't let the way people are, disrupt your day. Understand them for who they are, the good & the bad, but keep a bond with Serenity.
Ace Antonio Hall
#22. I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
John O. Brennan
#24. The secret of disruptive innovations and business models isn't that they disrupt an industry; it's that they disrupt people.
Bernadette Jiwa
#25. The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
Don Kardong
#26. Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.
Bill Jensen
#27. U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.
Gary McKinnon
#28. Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.
John Abizaid
#29. Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process ...
Tom Ridge
#30. I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.
Anthony Hopkins
#31. I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
Xavier Niel
#32. The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
Michael Mullen
#33. As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.
Jay Leno
#34. questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently.
Warren Berger
#35. You cannot "disrupt" without incremental innovation being part of the process.
Pearl Zhu
#36. The Hack is the action you take to expose, jam, complicate, disrupt, or otherwise point out the crack to the organization.
Jason Little
#37. Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.
Mark McKinnon
#38. There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Will Rogers
#39. America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.
Tom J. Donohue
#40. The diary was evidence; it was - it might be - corroboration. It might disrupt the banal reiterations of memory. It might jump-start something - though I had no idea what.
Julian Barnes
#41. We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.
Margaret Heffernan
#42. Besides trying to influence opinion in Maine, Webster sent agents to disrupt the activities of the "Patriot Hunters," a radical American group hoping to oust the British from Canada, and the scheme seems to have been the first time that Americans were targets of their own government.
Gary May
#43. The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas, who are trying to disrupt the status quo, and usher in a better way. We need to think out of the box, and be curious, and be willing to take risks.
Steve Case
#44. No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.
Cofer Black
#45. I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me ...
Don Watson
#46. I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.
Frank Welker
#47. (First World) petite bourgeoisie are pretty much the most handicapped ones coming to the struggle, both in terms of ability to disrupt the system and in ability to understand what 's going on in the first place
Anonymous
#48. I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.
Mary Leakey
#49. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#50. The difference between civil servants and private businessmen is that when a central planner makes a mistake, he is likely to disrupt the whole economy and not just a single business.
Paul A. Cantor
#51. If you insist on using a thumbless grip on the bench, you need to do it at home so that when the ambulance comes (if anyone is there to call 911), it doesn't disrupt anyone else's training.
Mark Rippetoe
#52. Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.
Michael Harris
#53. We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.
Michael Chertoff
#54. If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected). The microbes choke and die after a few hours.
Sam Kean
#55. If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#56. If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.
David "Doc" Searls
#57. We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.
Junot Diaz
#58. He didn't want to disrupt the boy's life any more than he already had.
Mitch Albom
#59. Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#60. People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
Dick Wolf
#61. P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.
Dutch Ruppersberger
#62. Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.
Robert Scoble
#63. Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.
Eric Weiner
#64. I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.
Bell Hooks
#65. A wave of undergraduates arrived to disrupt the city's tranquillity.
Deborah Harkness
#66. True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
Peter Diamandis
#67. Don't be a one hit wonder. Daringly disrupt the marketplace again and again.
Catrice M. Jackson
#68. I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.
Nick Davies
#69. I understand Los Angeles as a space where "real and imagined narratives overlap" in ways that disrupt both either/or dichotomies (Spanish or Indian, Mexican or American, Brown or White) and "linear historical understandings of this place and its people."22
David Samuel Torres-Rouff
#70. We didn't want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It's very rare to be able to do that. It's completely pure.
Julie Delpy
#71. Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.
Janet Evanovich
#72. Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
Roger Wicker
#73. Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.
Travis Bradberry
#74. As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families - they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence
Han Kang
#75. I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.
Evan Spiegel
#76. The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.
Lyn Gardner
#77. Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone's potential, talent and position in history.
Dejan Stojanovic
#78. Satan is trying to disrupt everything that God is doing
David Frost
#80. But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.
James Dashner
#81. You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage.
Rosamund Pike
#82. I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#83. A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
Vince Flynn
#84. Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?
James Callaghan
#85. And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.
Libba Bray
#86. Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Robin S. Sharma
#87. As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Barry Eichengreen
#88. Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
Adolf Galland
#89. Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.
Keith Teare
#90. An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
Ben Edwards
#91. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
Elmore Leonard
#92. The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.
Henry Hazlitt
#93. We can't fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.
Natasha Tsakos
#94. It is our job to ruin the perfection of the empty page. It is our job to disrupt the status quo: because that's what storytelling us. Taking a straight line and bending it, breaking it, shaping it into something far stranger and far greater.
Chuck Wendig
#95. A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified, it often paves the way for treatments that will disrupt the cancer's metabolism while sparing normal tissue.
David Perlmutter
#96. Our emotions are the continuous waves and undercurrents that enable us to flow but in some instances, when hold on to them, suppress them or repress them, or express the destructively, they disrupt the flow
Mavis Mazhura
#97. I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
Barbara Kruger
#98. You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.
Peter Diamandis
#99. I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
Jack White
#100. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance runs outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.
John Steinbeck
