Institutional Change Quotes

#1. The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

Douglass North

#2. If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the "dirty work" of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.

Emily Matchar

#3. We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force ... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

Wendy Kopp

#4. Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into
the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

Sathya Sai Baba

#5. Being strong was hard work, and I was ready to let someone else be strong for a little bit. Not forever, but for a little while.

J.C. Isabella

#6. Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Rick Santorum

#7. We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.

Guilherme Leal

#8. So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

David E. Kelley

#9. For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

Scott Harshbarger

#11. I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

Julianne Moore

#12. Break through the bonds of your past.

Tony Robbins

#13. I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

Daniel Pinkwater

#14. I believe it went like this - and stop me if I'm wrong, Mousey: 'Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too.

Elle Lothlorien

#15. Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur