don't rock the boat

When Antonia Hernández was named president and CEO of the California Community Foundation in 2004, it was a conservative “don’t rock the boat” organization, she says.

"If he had one sticky note on the palm of his hand I think it would be 'don't rock the boat,' in the sense of not to come across as too dovish or too hawkish," said Antulio Bomfim, until last year a senior Fed policy adviser and now head of global macro for the global fixed income team at Northern Trust.

I feel like it's easy to try to keep yourself in a zone that feels like well, maybe don't rock the boat.

For the newspapers, “there’s a little bit of ‘don’t rock the boat’ there,” Edmonds said.

As an artist, I’ve always been faced with somebody saying, “Don’t rock the boat, just be an artist, just be pretty, just do this, just do that. Nobody wants to hear that. Nobody wants to know about that.”