"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

Time, Work, Completion

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Time, Poor, Poverty, Questions

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

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"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

Organization

"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."

Power

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

Society

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

Politics

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

Time

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."

Planning

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

Opportunity

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

"Life is defined by time and seasons."

"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

"You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."

"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

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

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."

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