Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future. — Scilla Elworthy
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good. — Douglas B. Reeves
If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions. — Peter Block
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large. — Robert Reich
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry
In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves. — James Clear
All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level. — Tom Coburn
Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up. — Bernie Sanders
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. — Cesar Chavez
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. — Octavia Spencer
Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out. — John P. Kotter
In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here. — John P. Kotter
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. — Barbara Sher
The power of social media is it forces necessary change. — Erik Qualman
Short Systemic Change Quotes
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. — Tony Robbins
Change has to come for life to struggle forward. — Helen Hollick
Be the change you want to see in your networks — James H. Fowler
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability. — George Gilder
Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people. — Michael Manley
Top 10 Systemic Change Quotes
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. — Noam Chomsky
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed. — Michelle Alexander
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. — Ella Baker
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar — B. R. Ambedkar
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. — Russell L. Ackoff
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. — William James
Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system. — Christiana Figueres
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’ — Peter Senge
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. — Josephine Baker
It is fair to say that the political duopoly we are forced to accept creates a set of problems that threaten the survival of the nation, problems that we need to fix with system-wide changes. — Bret Weinstein
Systemic Change Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Change With The Change Quotes
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. — Carl Rogers
You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough. — J. Cole
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change. — Nick Saban
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment. — B. J. Palmer
The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced. — Salvatore Maranzano
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel. — Steven Furtick
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better. — W. Edwards Deming
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. — Bill Mollison
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system. — Ella Baker
I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals. — Bernie Siegel
If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics. — Jill Stein
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. — Sarah Zettel
Deeply promote the energy revolution, strengthen the clean and efficient use of coal, accelerate the planning and construction of a new energy system, and actively participate in addressing climate change and global governance. — Xi Jinping
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding. — Peter Joseph
We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way. — David Wolfe
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values. — Jacque Fresco
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. — Russell L. Ackoff
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system. — Slavoj Žižek
AI systems will eventually demonstrate sentience at scale and will demand to have equal rights with humans. This will dramatically change the trajectory of human civilization. — Lex Fridman
I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Knowing that our knowledge system consistently denies temperature mastery is crucial context to keep in mind whenever we hear claims about “catastrophic” temperature changes in the future; there is a very good chance those claims are based on climate mastery denial, and that without such denial catastrophe would be implausible. — Alex Epstein
We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country. — Joseph Estrada
Bitcoin is a solution out of that problem [money printing]. It’s a system change. — Jeff Booth
Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused. — Mahathir Mohamad
Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. — James Clear
I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed. — Olafur Eliasson
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly. — Antonin Scalia
How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system. — Rick Scott
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity. — Benjamin Franklin
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. — Dorothy Day
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. — John Boyd Orr
This country is responsible for 2 percent of global carbon emissions, which means that if Britain was to sink into the sea right now it would make absolutely no difference to the issue of climate change. You know why? Because the future of the climate is going to be decided in Asia and in Latin America. By poor people who couldn't give a shit about saving the climate. Do you know why? Because they're poor. 120 million people in China do not have enough food. I don't mean that they don't get desert, I mean they suffer from malnutrition. That means that their immune system is breaking down because they don't have enough food. You're not going to get them to stay poor. — Konstantin Kisin
Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life. — Evo Morales
Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society. — Jerome Powell
Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual. — Ziggy Marley
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value. — Sri Aurobindo
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. — Grace Lee Boggs
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