#tom

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#custom #despotism #everywhere #hindrance #human

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#cheaper #customer #demands #doing #educate

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. ↗

— James Pinckney Miller

#because #become #build #chicken #does

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#being #could #doing #epitome #find

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#any #come #cruise #each #end

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. ↗

— Keith Miller

#i #myself #primary #see #symptom

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. ↗

— Merton Miller

#advising #also #basis #cambridge #company

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets. ↗

— David Milne

#center #close #customers #design #developing