Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence

Laurence J. Peter

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Money
  • Priority

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Unity

• Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Nice
  • Dumb
  • Grow

• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)

  

  Victor Borge
  • Smile
  • Distance

• We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Book

• You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.

  

  Archilochus
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Sometimes you tell the day

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • World

• Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Small
  • Organization

• You can't always worry about offending people.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • Worry

• I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Business

• I don't know; I guess they'll never make another 'Nemo.' I see they're making another 'Monsters, Inc.' I had a wonderful idea for them. I swear to God, I think there could be a great sequel to 'Nemo' where the fish never will leave home. He just won't leave. 'Getting Rid of Nemo.' Right, 'You're 30 years old! Get out of here!'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • God
  • Home

• If a woman isn't feeling sexual with herself, she won't respond to advances from any partner, male or female. When this woman goes dancing, she's finding a connection with her own erotic self. It might be about being on a dance floor, feeling free, not having to feel at all responsible for anybody else's well-being. For other people, it might be about going on a hike for four days by herself and reconnecting with nature and strength and endurance and beauty.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Feelings
  • Responsible
  • Female

• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Songs
  • Mysterious

• Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

  

  Manning Marable
  • She
  • Fields
  • Singers

• The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Men
  • Long
  • May

• Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence

  

  Laurence J. Peter