Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rockefeller

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.

Eli Broad

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Gerry Adams

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Simon Mainwaring

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

Denis Villeneuve

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Anthony D'Angelo

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Alan Cohen

When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

Leona Lewis

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Walter Benjamin

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Walter Benjamin

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Bill Gillette

We never had a waiting list for people who wanted to be on the board. We needed more people to come to the table and have everyone's ideas heard.

Ludwig von Mises

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Ludwig von Mises

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Brad Henry

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

Howard Schultz

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

Rick Perry

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

Andrew Cuomo

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.