C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.C. Northcote Parkinson
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
D'Arcy Carden -
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
Jackie DeShannon -
I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
Iggy Azalea -
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
Taylor Schilling
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler -
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon -
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
Ina Garten -
I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
Salman Rushdie -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
T. C. Boyle -
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
Ted Dekker -
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
J. C. Chandor -
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
Joanne Rowling -
Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
Wayne Rooney
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Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.
Pete Hamill -
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
William Shakespeare -
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
Lewis Carroll -
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.
H. Rider Haggard -
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.
Lao Tzu -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson