Quotes About Challenging Status Quo

#1. Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

Natalie Imbruglia

#2. The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Therese Fowler

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Change is not, then, a matter of "magical" thinking or waving a "wand" - it is about pushing ideas, building movements, and challenging the status quo.

Christopher Cook

#6. 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.

Samuel Mockbee

#7. The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

Madame De Stael

#8. There is always a solution to every challenging situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. 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

#10. The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Marshall Ganz

#12. The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.

Farshad Asl

#13. The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

Dan Quayle

#14. You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.

Albert Camus

#15. I love challenging the status quo.

Sara Ramirez

#16. As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

Lily Cole

#17. God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level of spiritual consciousness, constantly sharpening our spiritual senses, constantly challenging our complacency and status quo mentality.

Robin Bertram

#18. The Beginning of all things; the critical moments of all things!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Martin Luther

#20. Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

Saji Ijiyemi

#21. I don't have nerve enough to commit suicide," she said, "so I might as well do anything anybody says - in the service of mankind." ***

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#22. The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.

John Dunn

#23. Instead of challenging the status quo and trusting in your own abilities, they would rather you trust in government.

Eric Bolling