C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Space
  • Idea

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Human
  • Being Human

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Speak
  • First
  • Face

• We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Focused
  • Often
  • North

• I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Me
  • Day
  • Model

• Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Company

• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Wind
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Different
  • Perspective
  • Engineering

• My teachers used to call me a failure

  

  Tony Blair
  • Failure
  • Teacher

• The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Failure
  • Communication
  • Poison