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

C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

Time, Work, Completion

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

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

Time, Right

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Time, Luck, Now

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

Julian Barbour, British Scientist

Time, Illusion

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Time, Mind, Perception, Experience

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Time, Work, People, Democracy

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

Time, Presence, Love, Absence

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

Time, Running

"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

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"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

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

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

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"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

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"The smaller the function, the greater the management."

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."

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

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."

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

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