C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 30, 1909 - March 9, 1993

Topics

TimeWillInvolvedAgendaSumSpent

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

Andrew Rosenthal

GreatDayEffortViewPlanFinding

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Matthew McConaughey

GreatMotivationVanityFair

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don't have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That's hard.

Angelina Jolie

WomenChildrenSupportPeopleHelp

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

John Singleton

HeroPurposeGentlemanRulesHead

I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.

Sid Gillman

DaughterGameDoingHandsPhoneTry

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

LifeLiveAlonePeopleMeMy Life

What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

Jay Chandrasekhar

LaughSameThingsFoundEverywhere

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Jonathan Dimbleby

YouTaxUnderstandFailPopulation

My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.

Dolores O'Riordan

FatherTimeBodyHandHimHospital

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

Dennis Hastert

HealthCareAmericaSeniorHalf

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Clive James

ChessRudeBallsRightWhoever

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

Brandon Webb

ExcellenceTrainingSeriousAspire

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