Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong. — Duncan Green Decision Copy Share Image
I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy. — Duncan Green Determined Copy Share Image
To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself. — Duncan Green Ideas Copy Share Image
What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me." — Duncan Green Ideas Copy Share Image
In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own… — Duncan Green Communication Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of… — Duncan Green Activist Copy Share Image
The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over… — Duncan Green Death Copy Share Image
When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change,… — Duncan Green Change Copy Share Image
People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly… — Duncan Green Advantage Copy Share Image
There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets,… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so… — Duncan Green Afghanistan Copy Share Image
When you get talking to people in positions of power, you find that often their worldview is framed either in terms of… — Duncan Green Country Copy Share Image
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States.… — Duncan Green Change Copy Share Image
I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You… — Duncan Green Activist Copy Share Image
Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems. — Duncan Green Acting Copy Share Image
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them. — Duncan Green Activism Copy Share Image
People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people… — Duncan Green Complex problems Copy Share Image
Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get… — Duncan Green Argument Copy Share Image
You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Argument Copy Share Image
![“Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.” quote by Duncan Green](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d17/duncan-green-20105_activist_some-kinds-of-activists-are-more-willing_57391.jpg)
![“I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.” quote by Duncan Green](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/272/duncan-green-20105_activist_i-see-activists-getting-really-angry-tha_1324634.jpg)
