Systems Change Quotes

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!