A Quote by Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian - Writer
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Laurence J. Peter

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Voltaire

Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.

Margaret Hoover

I was very proud after winning the World Championship the first time, so to win it three times, and consecutively, would be great.

Adrian Lewis

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Gloria Steinem

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

T. S. Eliot

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.

William Stanley Jevons

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Jeff Beck

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

George Stillman Hillard

To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert of the conventions of correct arrangements in order to misplace them. In other words, misplacing things with the understanding, or even the mastery, of normalcy is actually quite poetic. These are rule-based operations.

Jimenez Lai

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Michel de Montaigne

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.