Without a sense of urgency , people … won’t make needed sacrafices. Instead they cling to the status quo and resist.’ – Quoting John Kotter
– Adam M Grant
Related Quotes:
- Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. – Orrin Woodward
- Instead of courage’ management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering ‘a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act. – Adam M Grant
- Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life. – Debasish Mridha
- Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. – Craig Ferguson
- It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo. – Michele Jennae
- If your dream is accepted by all, you don’t have a big enough dream. Big dreams challenge the status quo. – Mensah Oteh
- Hope builds and creates dreams. Fear keep us firmly entrenched in the status quo – Tony Curl
- The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred. – Truman Doctrine
- Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader. – Israelmore Ayivor
- If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn’t. – Richie Norton
- Awesome -ª-ŽLeadership-¬ is encouraging others to take initiative,challenge what is status quo improve it and feel pride in their commitment~bns~ – Bluenscottish
- Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo. – Scott Hammerle
- Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions. – Pearl Zhu
- She’s no longer afraid to die. What she’s afraid of is living, accepting the status quo. – Ellen Hopkins
- Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise. – Jay Samit
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. – Bob Iger
- Constant questioning produces a status quo of change. – Ted Agon
- You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you. – Jaachynma NE Agu
- The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard. – Bill Price
- Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say ‘NO’ to the status quo. – David Brier
- Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future. – Mary Mihalic
- Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo! – Tara Adams
- It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There’s a certain boldness to inaction. – Karen Thompson Walker
- Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. – Rick Perlstein
- As your care recipient’s advocate, be involved, don’t accept the status quo, and don’t be afraid to voice your concerns. – Nancy L Kriseman
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- There are people you wont miss, but wont forget either. Those people are unique – Ishak Zaaimia
- People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. – Peter M Senge
- Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks. – WY EvansWentz
- The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away. – Sunday Adelaja
- There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen. – Andrew Crofts
- Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning. – Adam Grant
- The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness. – Nikki Rowe
- Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. – Bryant McGill
- God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man. – Atom Tate
- Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light. – Seth Adam Smith
- How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak