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

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Source : Parkinson's Law ch. 10 (1957)

C. Northcote Parkinson

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.”
“every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.”
“One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible”
“The Europeans who went to Africa came back with â€œmodern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?”
“What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?”
“Decadence is wonderful.”
“If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.”
“I want us to know our world.Â Â If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.”

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