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Parkinson Quotes & Sayings

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The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done. — Joyce Rachelle

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike. — Roger Parkinson

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law. — Bill Bryson

When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa. — Joel Parkinson

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced. — Norman Parkinson

I was a purist bore. — Michael Parkinson

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing. — Joel Parkinson

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. — C. Northcote Parkinson

It's true. Happiness is a big thing. — Joel Parkinson

The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven. — Muhammad Ali

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. — Michael J. Fox

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. — Michael J. Fox

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. — C. Northcote Parkinson

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. — C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. — Michael Parkinson

It is the busiest man who has time to spare. — C. Northcote Parkinson

There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone. — Katherine Parkinson

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

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title. — Joel Parkinson

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. — Muhammad Ali

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave. — Joel Parkinson

I'm a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy. — Joel Parkinson

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask. — Michael Parkinson

It's Parkinson's. And if you talk about it again the way you just did, I'll be the one to take some of your teeth out the hard way. Understand? — Andrew Pyper

I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time. — Katherine Parkinson

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty. — C. Northcote Parkinson

In the morning, I'll usually do eggs and toast, but at night I keep it all protein. — Joel Parkinson

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it. — Joel Parkinson

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson

My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad. — Joel Parkinson

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I guess you're only as good as the waves. — Joel Parkinson

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Parkinson's dementia. Or was it something else? Only time would — Jane E. Mengesha

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. — Michael J. Fox

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson

It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all. — Joel Parkinson

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring. — Norman Parkinson

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? — Khaled Hosseini

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. — Mort Kondracke

Expenditure rises to meet income. — C. Northcote Parkinson

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. — Jilly Cooper

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want. — Cecil Parkinson

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout. — Joel Parkinson

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids. — Katherine Parkinson

I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title. — Joel Parkinson

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's. — Muhammad Ali

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera — Norman Parkinson

The only door into her bedroom led through the church. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It — Timothy Ferriss

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. — C. Northcote Parkinson

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better. — Norman Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through. — Joel Parkinson

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. — Anne Wojcicki

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them ... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. — Katherine Parkinson

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. — Michael Parkinson

In Parkinson disease, double vision arises from the inability of the eyes to keep pace with each other. — Sotirios Parashos

I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter. — Joel Parkinson

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart. — Norman Parkinson

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. — Daniel Tosh

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another. — Joel Parkinson

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down. — Linda Ronstadt

Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture. — Rohinton Mistry

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. — Helen Mirren

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not. — Billy Graham

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential. — Joel Parkinson

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. — C. Northcote Parkinson

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it. — Michael Parkinson

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing! — Katherine Parkinson

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. — C. Northcote Parkinson

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me. — Michael J. Fox

You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end. — Margo MacDonald

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all? — Michael J. Fox

Scales are the grammar of music. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I'm very fond of piano players. — Michael Parkinson

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. — George H. W. Bush

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets. — Katherine Parkinson

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part. — Siobhan Parkinson

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me. — Linda Ronstadt

Expenditures rise to meet income. — C. Northcote Parkinson

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing. — Joel Parkinson

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines! — Frances Parkinson Keyes

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another. — C. Northcote Parkinson

It is only when we let go of knowing what we think we know that new knowing can enter our lives. — Maria Parkinson