Walter Lippmann Quotes

If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo.

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

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

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.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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

I love challenging the status quo.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.