Deb Caletti Quotes

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

We must discard the past in order to find a remedy for the evils of the present.

In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

When you say if you have faith in America, I think it's the faith in the fact that we're going to end up changing the country, because if we don't, this country's in big trouble.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.