Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo."
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Status Quo
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Rollo May
Psychologist, Author
"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."
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future."
Jack Graham
Artist
"Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened."
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"It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo."
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"It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle."
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"The status quo cannot work."
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"Public school system status quo is indefensible."
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"To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo."
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"If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo."
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"I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off."
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"I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo."
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"The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country."
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