Quotes About Change

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.

I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

Trump is a systemic stress test.

America certainly is a great country with plenty of freedoms, but there are a lot of systemic issues that need to change.

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

The reality is we have allowed systemic racism to continue through all these years.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

Things I've been talking about for a long time as systemic problems, the American public has also begun to see something needs to be done down here.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

It's a totally different spiel when I talk at Morehouse. But when I'm talking at MIT? At the University of Cincinnati? I'm telling white people, in order to stop systemic racism, you must first befriend, become a colleague of, get to know intimately, put yourself culturally in the framework of someone who doesn't look like you.

Of course, individual change doesn't make much difference in a holistic picture... but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

I think when people are having a hard time, we tend to blame ourselves and think we can do better. Bernie is giving rise to their understanding that this is not an individual problem, this is a systemic problem.