Getting to Maybe Quotes

“Allows for imperfection - in yourself and others.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

“It assumes that in any social innovation something radically new occurs and assumes that, for this to happen, there must be, first and foremost, a belief that intractable problems can be solved. It assumes there must be an individual or group of individuals poised and ready to act—but”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

“And what seemed almost impossible looking forward seems almost inevitable looking back.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

“Maybe” comes with no guarantees, only a chance. But “maybe” has always been the best odds the world has offered to those who set out to alter its course—to find a new land across the sea, to end slavery, to enable women to vote, to walk on the moon, to bring down the Berlin Wall.   “Maybe” is not a cautious word. It is a defiant claim of possibility in the face of a status quo we are unwilling to accept. And as you will see from reading this book, transforming the world is possible because the very complex forces of interconnection that make systems resistant to change are the same ones that can be harnessed to propel change.   “Maybe” is hope incarnate—for all but the complacent and the cynical.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

“Relationships did not lead to quality of life; they were quality of life.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

“When an individual behaves in a way that is either too good or too bad it suggests that he has repressed, edited out, or rejected parts of his human nature. Both the bully and the saint have lost a sense of proportion.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

“In other words, complex systems comprise relationships. Relationships exist between things. You can point at things, but you can’t point at relationships. They are literally hard to see.5”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed