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"first of all you should never think of yourself as being different from anybody else. And that’s one of the most empowering things that I think that anyone can do, is that you’re entitled to the same opportunities as anybody else and I think that that change in mindset is very empowering"

"You’re making your journey, definitely help other people along the way with their journey. To teach is to lead and to learn, and I think that that’s an important thing that people should always continue throughout their career. Not only are you helping somebody within their journey, but you’re also getting something out if it in terms of developing your leadership capabilities – and that’s a wonderful way to give back to an organization"

"One should never be afraid to take a risk and really just give it a go and try something new, a completely different experience"

"Marriage requires patience. It is not easy. Marriage is like something that is wrapped, when you open it, whatever you see is what you accept. Your duty is to grow and nurture it."

"We are committed to providing excellent value and friendly, professional service and expertise to our customers, who trust us with their holiday plans. Being the UK’s largest independent travel agent means we have access to unparalleled choice and value, which we share with our customers through our network of branches around the UK, through our personal travel consultants who work from home, our virtual call centre, and our digital channels."

"overnight – not least in our scale and geography. That said, we were determined to stay true to our values and the family feel of our business, and we work hard to maintain that for our colleagues and our customers."

"Yes, technology is huge for us, from the state-of-the-art systems that are used by our retail network, Independence Group members and personal travel consultants, to our customer facing website – which we have invested in recently – to the App we are creating, and how we use AI. We are constantly developing how we improve our customer experience and business through technology."

"I feel this really isn't an award just for me, it's for all the people who have created the right environment for all those people to succeed and the apprentices and the young people themselves."

"I think that people pay too much attention to getting academic qualifications - not everyone can get them. There is a place in that whole system for well run apprenticeship schemes."

"“The reason why I am so passionate about apprentices and apprenticeships is that they have added the goods all the way through my career.""

"“I think I was seen as someone who got things done, a problem solver, but from my point of view that always involved getting the right people around the table.”"

"“The people currently running the council are not interested in empty rhetoric, they just want to get things done.”"

"I’m sure you have learnt already that things are more enjoyable and absorbing if you are interested. Curiosity can power you to learn new things, develop new skills and make new connections. When making career choices, pick things that really interest you and will keep you curious, and you will be more successful."

"Through your degree, you have honed your curiosity and problem solving skills. From here, you will have many opportunities to push the boundaries of what engineers think is possible today and solve the problems of tomorrow. Stay curious."

"When it’s behind you, it’s behind you” and the mindset is crucial to looking forward and winning the next time."

"We need people like you with a passion for making things work, who embrace failure as a chance to learn and who are not afraid to tackle challenges head on. You are already great role models for aspiring engineers at school in the area and beyond."

"“That idea of authorship in the mainstream is allowing bold voices to be themselves. And in truth, it’s not massively dissimilar to what I was doing at Sky.”"

"“Great doesn’t live at the fringes. It lives right in the center, because our audiences are clever and they are diverse.”"

"“In the U.K., I believe that media is hugely important, so we have to build the infrastructure well and we have to take it seriously. I can get misty-eyed about the shows, but I take the business of it really seriously because it’s supported me my whole life.”"

"“That idea that you can speak to a nation, just in different ways. But what’s amazing is we can take that national conversation to a global platform.”"

"“consistency right now is what we should be doing”"

"“To be able to say I know what my slate looks like this year, next year or the year after [is so important],”"

"“We commission for years ahead in order to be part of the UK landscape.”"

"“Audiences need to be in control of what we are giving them, empowering them to watch what they watch when they want to watch.”"

"“My shows all land in one go”"

"What the pupils need above all is continuity – and they need the self-esteem that comes with knowing that their school is where teachers want to stay long term."

"Until teaching our neediest children becomes the pinnacle of a professional career, the best-rewarded and most sought-after job, we cannot seriously tackle social injustice or provide equality of opportunity."

"The fact remains that teachers are likely to find it considerably more attractive to work in a successful school with good discipline, well motivated students and greater freedoms."

"Having to manage temporary and unqualified teachers can become a severe drain on the remaining experienced staff."

"Overall, we find too many enthusiastic new teachers, who are mostly young women graduates, rapidly losing their enthusiasm. For them, within the first five years, initially positive expectations about what they see as a creative, challenging and rewarding career, turn into a wish to change job and a reluctance to say they would choose teaching again. We should ask honestly why this happens."

"People should do everything they can to support their teachers [but] they must also be very clear that there is a legal requirement for them to refer that teacher to the GTCE."

"The code of conduct is relevant only to the tiny, tiny minority of teachers who fall below [the professional conduct] standard and come before the council. It is not a code which may be used by employers as a basis for dismissing teachers."

"“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children’s school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”"

"“She was enormously energetic and committed to making a success of the GTC. She battled to create a sense of credibility and value for the teaching profession.”"

"She contributed enormously at a crucial moment to the development of leadership skills and professionalism for the teaching profession and will be sorely missed."

"This is Britain's premier railway and there is a lot of pride in it among staff and passengers. What we are doing is trying to put some pride back in the railway. It is a company that has failed twice, and that inevitably has an impact on the service."

"huge amount of respect" for Hogg but there is evident impatience in her words – a directness that is also remarked upon by former colleagues."

"Towards the end of National Express's tenure they were scrabbling around to make money in any way they could, like charging for reservations, and quality was suffering"

"It is very early days. We have been here less than a year and we have had a lot to do in that time,"

"I think that because I didn't get A-levels and a degree, I always wanted to prove that I was as good as anyone else and I worked very hard."

"Like many young girls, I wanted to be an air stewardess, but I discovered that there was a lot more to travel and transport than working on a plane."

"In truth, the problems go back to 2006. The operators worked hard to make their payments, but I think decisions were taken that were quite short-term, and we've now got to try to put some of that right."

"You will not move us today."

"The voices of the women from Lavender Hill will be heard and respected."

"My fiction ranges from the early 20th century to the 1970s. The 1950s and 1960s are dramatic because of the rapid changes in society that took place in just a few years. The changes were especially rapid in the Roman Catholic Church, and within the Church, none more so than in communities of nuns."

"I’ve just finished Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, and I’m now reading Nora Webster by Colm Toibin."

"Wojtyla stands out as a leading figure in the Church's new phase of openness towards the East, moving beyond the purely diplomatic sphere."

"Karol Wojtyla burst onto the scene in the 1980s with the solemn gait of the most famous pope in history. Famous, but not celebrated. [...] After fifteen months of pontificate, Pope Karol Wojtyla is no longer an unknown figure: yet the more the world knows him, the less it loves him."

"(About the Jehovah's Witnesses ) Their founder was a former Presbyterian and then Adventist, Charles Taze Russell. He preached the imminent end of this evil world and the advent of God's Kingdom on earth. And so he instilled in his followers the feverish activism of the great eve. They went from house to house, in pairs, to spread the Bible and a magazine, ‘The Watchtower’, founded in Brooklyn in 1879 and since then translated into all the languages of the world, the repository of their doctrine. A true organisational talent, Russell was the first to apply door-to-door advertising methods, the potential of a popular press such as Reader's Digest, and the appeal of the nascent cinematic arts to religious preaching. A magnificent film was, in fact, their advertisement."

"Well, science has not yet been able to prove that the vital principle of the human organism resides in any organ of the body. The integrative system of the body, considered as a “whole”, cannot in fact be localised in a single organ, however important, such as the heart or the brain. Brain and heart activity presuppose life, but they are not strictly speaking the cause of life. Activities should not be confused with their principle. Life is something elusive that transcends the individual material organs of the living being and cannot be measured materially, let alone created: it is a mystery of nature, which science is right to investigate, but over which science has no control. When science claims to create or manipulate life, it becomes philosophy and religion itself, slipping into “scientism”."