"I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not."

-- E. P. Thompson

#Leadership Quotes #Care Quotes #Position Quotes

“What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?”
“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”
“I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)”
“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.”
“... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.”
“Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.”

Source : "In the beginning" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.
“I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.”

Source : Valedictory Speech in Parliament, www.infonews.co.nz. April 08, 2009.
“I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.”

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