Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.

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• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • End
  • Win

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cutting

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Strength
  • Overcome
  • Acquire

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • You
  • Body

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Reason
  • See
  • Against

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Children
  • Book
  • Soul

• The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Live
  • Money
  • Purpose

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

  

  Warren Moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Team

• I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?

  

  Otto Dix
  • Experience
  • Dead
  • Bullet

• 'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • World
  • Game
  • Interesting

• Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

  

  Harsha Bhogle
  • Conflict of interest
  • Post-Iraq
  • Indian cricket

• Marriage is scary to me, man.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Marriage
  • Scary

• Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.

  

  Laurence J. Peter