"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom."

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Source : "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

Ed Miliband

#Wisdom Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.”

Source : Source: www.fluxmagazine.com
“Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.”
“I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.”
“Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

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