“ To agree on keeping a status quo that can't be kept has nothing to do with consensus. It's decadence. ”
- Hilmar Kopper- Copy
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“ The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo. ”
- Hannes Alfven- Copy
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“ People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ”
- Max Eastman- Copy
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“ Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. ”
- Frank Popoff- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ”
- Carl Rowan- Copy
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“ In order to allow ourselves to be creative, we have to relinquish control and overcome fear. Why? Because real creativity is life-altering. It threatens the status quo; it makes us see things differently. It brings about change, and we are terrified of change… we live in a wild universe — a universe in which the truth is frightening… ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
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“ Creativity requires quite a lot of faith-not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing. You also need to have faith that life is composed not of alien or segregated elements but of related components… ”
- Twyla Tharp- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ As we enter a new year, we are at a crossroad. One way is the timid status quo, with a budget that bridles our future. The other way is a courageous course that unbridles opportunity and prosperity. But to forge that path we must pass tax modernization. ”
- Ernie Fletcher- Copy
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“ There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one — an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in… ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
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“ The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon… ”
- Warren G. Bennis- Copy
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“ If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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