Transformative Change Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.

We were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs. We possessed powers which were irresistible ... our outlook on the future was transformed.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

The more Democrats try to abandon the values and policies embodied in our platform, the more we will continue to lose. We can't win by running on incrementalism.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.