A Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Agenda Any Inverse Involved Item Proportion Spent Sum Time Time Spent Will

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

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

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

Cennino Cennini

[Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics.

Rush Limbaugh

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

Michael J. Fox

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

Edward Hallowell

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Lane Kirkland

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

John Ruskin

Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

Donald Trump

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Ann Beattie

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Calvin Trillin

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Don Meyer

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Michael J. Fox

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.