#status quo

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#again #challenged #era #feats #game

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

#better #bigger #dissatisfaction #feels #ferment

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted. ↗

— Julie Christie

#children #doing #everything #fry #grow

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#interested #not interested #overthrow #preserving #quo

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#always #bit #book #fear #i

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#challenge #cowardly #field #go #i

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

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. ↗

— Clark Kerr

#only #quo #solution #status #status quo

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#filling #formerly #innovations #involved #maintaining

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#be happy #eager #evolve #feel #grow