D. H. Lawrence Quotes

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

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

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

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.

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

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

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

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.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.