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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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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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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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (p. 47)
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
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Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
