Available Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson Download Open image “Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.” — C. Northcote Parkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Available Firsts Law Parkinson Parkinson 's Recreation Time Work
“Parkinson’s law. This law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” — Damon Zahariades Copy Share Image
“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,” still known as Parkinson’s Law.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share
“Although I owned a boat, I had no sonar, metal detector or any practical method of surveying the ocean bottom. With an incurable illness, no prospect of financial reward, little chance of success, brain surgery looming, and one child in college with another about to start, I was not in a position to spend thousands of dollars on a search.… — Peter M. Hunt Copy Share
Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of… — Fuller Albright Copy Share Image
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything,… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all. — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
