Top 1200 Maintaining The Status Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

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.

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

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

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

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

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

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

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family of God is not contingent upon any kind of status - marital status, parental status, financial status, social status, or even the kind of status we post on social media.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

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

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

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

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

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Maintaining your hydration status is probably the most important thing, along with rest, that you can do with a hangover.

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

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

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

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

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That is not democracy.

It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

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

Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.