Parkinson's Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Parkinson's
Parkinson's Quotes & Sayings
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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
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
— Michael J. Fox
When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.
— Joel Parkinson
There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
— Michael Parkinson
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
I was a purist bore.
— Michael Parkinson
I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.
— Joel 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
A sermon expands to fill the time allotted to complete. it
— Peggy Noonan
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
Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.
— Michael Parkinson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
— 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
In the morning, I'll usually do eggs and toast, but at night I keep it all protein.
— Joel Parkinson
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
— C. Northcote 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
The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
— Katherine Parkinson
I'm a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy.
— Joel Parkinson
I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.
— Katherine Parkinson
It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.
— Michael Parkinson
Parkinson's dementia. Or was it something else? Only time would
— Jane E. Mengesha
Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
— Katherine Parkinson
I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
— Michael Parkinson
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
— Michael J. Fox
Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
— Michael Parkinson
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
— Chris Kilham
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
