Kofi Annan Quotes

Change is a process not an event.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

… evolution over revolution.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

Real change happens a step at a time.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.