Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.
I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.
My belief is that policy cannot be piecemeal.
I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
Remember, America: organization will set you free.
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.
Perhaps I am influenced by philosophies like the one at Chelsea which was 'If it isn't broken, change it' which saw us win three league titles in five years playing three different formations and tactical strategies so that the opposition could never keep up with our evolution at the time.
If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.
Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that's been to ignore or to rally around. And that's something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we're ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.
I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.
Championing quality improvement and value in the health care system is a passion of mine, and I'm able to bring about change through private equity activities.
Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.
To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.
I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
