Quotes About Changing The Status Quo

#1. 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

#2. The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.

Oscar Arias

#3. If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

James Wolfensohn

#4. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#6. If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Seth Godin

#7. Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

Seth Godin

#8. What damn fool punches his own horse?

Tom Franklin

#9. Archaeologists use datasets from NASA and commercial satellites, processing the information using various off-the-shelf computer programs. These datasets allow us to see beyond the visible part of the light spectrum into the near, middle, and far infrared.

Sarah Parcak

#10. That's why we're separated,'I said. 'It's not money, it's feeling- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently.

S.E. Hinton

#11. Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

Jeremy Roenick

#12. Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. 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

#14. I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Barry Diller

#15. I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

Sting

#16. Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

Steve Mirsky

#17. So, what's the first step to changing norms? It's breaking the code of silence around the problem that always sustains the status quo.

Kerry Patterson

#18. Do not judge a man by the books on his shelf that he has read but by the books on his shelf that he does not reread.

Anonymous

#19. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#20. There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.

Amy Davidson

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

Saji Ijiyemi

#22. It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

Josh McDermitt

#23. I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

Rita Dove