{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["intelligence","misconceptions","status-quo"],"id":16226,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. This may explain the cascading grief that flooded the country in late November. We mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation, but we grieved as well for ourselves because we knew we were sick.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["intolerance","kennedy","national-character","status-quo","truth","violence"],"id":25708,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.","author":"Eric Bogosian","tags":["anger","angst","idealism","injustice","status-quo","youth"],"id":29539,"author_id":"Eric+Bogosian"},{"text":"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["adaptability","change","conservatism","religion","status-quo"],"id":32098,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.","author":"Harold Edmund Stearns","tags":["acceptance","adventure","america","civilization","desertion","emigration","experimentation","flexibility","freedom","idealism","institutionalized","looting","lost-generation","possibility","rebellion","revolt","status-quo","youth"],"id":38843,"author_id":"Harold+Edmund+Stearns"},{"text":"Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["hate","life","live","sloth","status-quo"],"id":41534,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.","author":"Rob Siltanen","tags":["advertising","apple","change","commercial","computers","different","madness","misattributed-apple","misattributed-steve-jobs","misfits","nonconformity","progressive","rebels","status-quo","think-different","troublemakers"],"id":48664,"author_id":"Rob+Siltanen"},{"text":"In theory, the risk of business failure can be reduced to a number, the probability of failure multiplied by the cost of failure. Sure, this turns out to be a subjective analysis, but in the process your own attitudes toward financial risk and reward are revealed.By contrast, personal risk usually defies quantification. It's a matter of values and priorities, an expression of who you are. 'Playing it safe' may simply mean you do not weigh heavily the compromises inherent in the status quo. The financial rewards of the moment may fully compensate you for the loss of time and fulfillment. Or maybe you just don't think about it. On the other hand, if time and satisfaction are precious, truly priceless, you will find the cost of business failure, so long as it does not put in peril the well-being of you or your family, pales in comparison with the personal risks of no trying to live the life you want today.Considering personal risk forces us to define personal success. We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of 'success' from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game. Personal goals, on the other hand, leave us on our own, without this habit of useless measurement and comparison.Only the Whole Life Plan leads to personal success. It has the greatest chance of providing satisfaction and contentment that one can take to the grave, tomorrow. In the Deferred Life Plan there will always be another prize to covet, another distraction, a new hunger to sate. You will forever come up short.","author":"Randy Komisar","tags":["life","passion","risk","status-quo","success"],"id":49745,"author_id":"Randy+Komisar"},{"text":"If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["delivery","divorce","food-for-thought","give-birth","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","mediocre","mediocrity","normal","status","status-quo"],"id":55373,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["comparison","hero","heroes","heroism","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","position","reference","status","status-quo","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":58229,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}