A Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

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C. Northcote Parkinson
British - Historian
July 30, 1909 - March 9, 1993

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Shirley Conran

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

Deniece Schofield

For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

Warren Buffett

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Nathan Myhrvold

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

Neal A. Maxwell

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

Ralph Peters

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

Andre Holland

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Edvard Munch

One of the most important things that we as Christians can do is regularly fill our hearts and minds with God's Word. Bible Gateway is one great tool available that makes reading and studying Scriptures readily available to each of us at any moment.

Christine Caine

Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

Banana Yoshimoto

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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