Quotes About Changing The System

#1. The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

Charles Lindbergh

#2. The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than changing the system.

Nick Manning

#3. Gods?" said Xeno. "We don't bother with gods. Huh. Relics of an outmoded belief system, gods."
There was a rumble of thunder from the clear evening sky.
"Except for Blind Io the Thunder God," Xeno went on, his tone hardly changing.

Terry Pratchett

#4. The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.

Scott McCallum

#5. The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

Paul Johnson

#6. It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore ... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

Iveta Radicova

#7. The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.

James Surowiecki

#8. The big mistake I made, however, was in trying to change the system instead of just changing myself.

Leah Remini

#9. If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

Craig Venter

#10. And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.

Richard M. Daley

#11. I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Michael K. Powell

#12. They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

Ian Shoales

#13. With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Kris Gopalakrishnan

#14. Most choose to pretend they're ignorant of the facts because the system works. The idea of changing it scares them more than giving it their tacit approval.

Joelle Charbonneau

#15. If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit.

Jonathan Granoff

#16. Do not try to please others by changing your beliefs. Your beliefs can be the force that can change the system.

Henry Johnson Jr

#17. Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

Lee Iacocca

#18. For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

James S. Coleman

#19. The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

Norman Doidge

#20. I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.

Jonathan Galassi

#21. I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

Damon Runyon

#22. There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

Victoria Woodhull

#23. Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Mahathir Mohamad

#24. We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.

Eric Schlosser

#25. The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

Lewis Black

#26. Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#27. The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

Jim Knight

#28. A system consists of elements, interconnections, and a purpose. Changing elements usually has the least effect on the system.

Donella H. Meadows

#29. You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#30. It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

#31. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Bruce Lee

#32. The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Iris Chang

#33. I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.

Piers Anthony

#34. To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Gloria Steinem

#35. I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

Tom Shadyac