Quotes About Quo

#1. Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

Leah Busque

#2. When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average. And is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

George Saunders

#3. It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

Phil Harding

#4. Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Charles Koch

#5. 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

#6. If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

Eli Broad

#7. Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

Wendy Davis

#8. Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

John Stoltenberg

#9. Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

Michael Bennett

#10. Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

Irvine Welsh

#11. A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

John C. Maxwell

#12. In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Chris Argyris

#13. Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Jane Elliot

#14. For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

Henry A. Kissinger

#15. A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Helen Mirren

#16. 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.

Seth Godin

#17. There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

Laura Miller

#18. When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

Michael Demon Calce

#19. There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

Susie Bright

#20. The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Seth Godin

#21. The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

Carly Fiorina

#22. A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should, - in fact, - it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always stay in that condition known as "status quo"; and grow up, antagonistic to all surroundings.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#23. If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.

Ferdinand Lundberg

#24. 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

#25. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

Maya Rodale

#26. I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

Angela Davis

#27. As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

RuPaul

#28. For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space." "Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.

Paulo Freire

#29. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

Seth Godin

#30. 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

#31. The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

Howard Dean

#32. Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

Kyra Sedgwick

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

Francis Chan

#36. Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

John Lennon

#37. If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors ... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

Sean Duffy

#38. Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [ ... ] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.

Christopher Hitchens

#39. The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

Bertrand Russell

#40. 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.

Walter Brueggemann

#41. Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

Jack Graham

#42. The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.

Al Gore

#43. Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

Ron Kaufman

#44. The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo
ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

Condoleezza Rice

#45. They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Anthony Holden

#46. I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

Ridley Scott

#47. So, what, Trevor was the quid and Shayna was the pro quo? I don't think so, Syd. Playing games is not my style.

Steph Campbell

#48. Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

John P. Kotter

#49. When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

Tony Benn

#50. A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

Hyrum W. Smith

#51. The United States is both a conservative power, defending the international status quo against those who would change it through violence, and a revolutionary power seeking to replace

Walter Russell Mead

#52. When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

Bell Hooks

#53. There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

Garry Kasparov

#54. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

William J. Clinton

#55. Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

Chuck D

#56. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

L. Ron Hubbard

#57. If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

Marianne Williamson

#58. I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Elizabeth May

#59. We know that those who challenge the status quo and do so with both conviction and charisma are at risk of being killed.

Robin R. Meyers

#60. Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.

Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.

Richie Norton

#61. To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

Susan Sontag

#62. Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

Ted Nugent

#63. As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

Bella Abzug

#64. Most of us are adept at maintaining our self-structures and denying to awareness experiences which challenge our status quo.

Alan Coulson

#65. It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.

Michele Jennae

#66. The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

Richard Powers

#67. The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

Warren Ellis

#68. The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Malorie Blackman

#69. Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Nick Rahall

#70. In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

Laurence J. Peter

#71. The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

Jacob M. Appel

#72. Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Jay Samit

#73. My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

Vikas Swarup

#74. I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Dick Gephardt

#75. 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

#76. Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

Marvin Harris

#77. I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Sheldon Adelson

#78. Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Robert Byrne

#79. Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.

Marvin Ammori

#80. At any given time, you're either moving forward or you're moving backward. There is no in-between. There's no such thing as maintaining the status quo. It

Darrin Donnelly

#81. No. I believe that dreams fuel life. And it's when you're chasing them that you're most alive. There's no reward in settling for the safety of status quo.

Kim Holden

#82. 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

#83. A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to alter the status quo, some wish to bring harm to others. In my case I do it for the most personal of reasons - because I like it and because I can.

Andy Chambers

#84. The status quo cannot work.

Kofi Annan

#85. Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

Gary Hirshberg

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

James Wolfensohn

#87. Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Orrin Woodward

#88. no need of the quo Mars

Bob Marley

#89. Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .

Carlous Ruiz Zafon

#90. People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo ...

Jennifer James

#91. Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Jello Biafra

#92. If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Satoru Iwata

#93. Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

Elizabeth George

#94. The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#95. Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.

Mary Mihalic

#96. Constant questioning produces a status quo of change.

Ted Agon

#97. Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

Wayne Rogers

#98. Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Malcolm Gladwell

#99. 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

#100. 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