#tie

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#children #cities #day #november #one day

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#body #direction #experiences #gravitational #hidden

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#priorities #prioritize #schedule #your

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#around #bottom #bottom line #clear #crystal

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#always #am #celebrities #country #equally

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#duties #good #lifeguard #lot #people

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#became #breakthrough #calmer #changed #daughter

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#adventures #appealed #being #correspondent #covering

He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#bench #competencies #get #great #heroic