Systemic Improvement Quotes

Politics is about making institutions work somewhat better, helping people’s lives at the margins

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

I believe in "love it, or change it" rather than "love it, or leave it."

The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

My own growth comes not (just) individually, but mainly as part of a greater change for the better.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

Inner improvements create outer ones.

There's a lot of things that need to change, a lot of different issues that need to be addressed.

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.