C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
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One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.
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Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
