Deeyah Khan Quotes

We don’t need to wait three generations for change.

You get few chances to make really transformational institutional change.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

… evolution over revolution.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

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

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

You cannot just change regimes; you have to change mindsets.

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

With every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.