!["Social innovation should not only be efficient with respect to micro- agency, but innovative with respect to the dominant institutional setting. […] Transformative social innovations broaden freedom, not in the sense of increasing freedom of choice, but as capacity to shape one's own way of living."](https://si4sd.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/si4sd_quote33_en_transformative-si_novy-03.jpg?w=700)
!["Social innovation should not only be efficient with respect to micro- agency, but innovative with respect to the dominant institutional setting. […] Transformative social innovations broaden freedom, not in the sense of increasing freedom of choice, but as capacity to shape one's own way of living."](https://si4sd.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/si4sd_quote33_en_transformative-si_novy-03.jpg?w=700)
In this page you can find inspiring and clarifying quotes about Social Innovation and Sustainable Development found or heard during the research of the SI4SD project.
!["Social innovation should not only be efficient with respect to micro- agency, but innovative with respect to the dominant institutional setting. […] Transformative social innovations broaden freedom, not in the sense of increasing freedom of choice, but as capacity to shape one's own way of living."](https://si4sd.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/si4sd_quote33_en_transformative-si_novy-03.jpg?w=700)

![Infography with quote "The real is neither limited to empirically observable nor actually existing phenomena, but constitutes the underlying, non-observable mechanisms that can cause events in the world too. [...] Knowing them is decisive for effective transformative agency."](https://si4sd.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/si4sd_quote32_en_real-as-potential_novy-02.jpg?w=700)

![Infography with the quote by Andreas Novy "A realistic understanding of the world should be always critical about the prevalent concepts and theories which might lead to wrong - simplistic - representation of reality. [...] Transdisciplinarity helps to overcome initial, often limited and superficial problem definitions."](https://si4sd.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/si4sd_quote31_en_realistic-understanding_novy-01.jpg?w=700)
“Participation cannot be equated with democracy. By staging division and making visible that something important is at stake, citizens are challenged to take sides and participate in the conversation.”

“It’s the critics that drive improvement, they say “We can do this better”, they are the true optimists”.

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”

“Every point in history is a crossroads. A single travelled road leads from the past to the present, but myriad paths fork off into the future. Some of those paths are wider, smoother and better marked, and are thus more likely to be taken, but sometimes history – or the people who make history – takes unexpected turns.”

“One critical activity of collaborative management is to build relationships and interactions that result in achieving the collective purpose. Such activity is intended to facilitate interaction among partners, reduce complexity and uncertainty by promoting open and fluid information exchange, and increase communication linkages among partners to the collaboration.”
