C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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• 'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Doing
  • Content
  • Digital

• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Mistakes

• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Grip

• Decision – making is very scary for me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Scary

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Book
  • Free

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Smile
  • Face
  • Cause

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• 'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Live
  • She
  • Die

• I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Beginning

• I think the guys are all geared up. I think we understood where we all went wrong in Melbourne and we are working at it. We've got a couple of new faces, a new captain, and I think it is more of your natural ability comes out in the Test arena rather than the one-day arena.

  

  Brian Lara
  • Captain
  • Melbourne
  • Test arena

• I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • Life
  • Single
  • Beginning

• Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Work
  • Numbers
  • Prestige