Quotes About Change

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

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.

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

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

We do not need more status quo.

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

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.

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

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

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

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.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.