Parkinson Quotes

#1. Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#2. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#3. I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced. #Quote by Norman Parkinson

#4. Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#5. When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#6. The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#7. Expenditures rise to meet income. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#8. Anything can happen at Pipeline; it's one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#9. People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. #Quote by Helen Mirren

#10. It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#11. Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#12. For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#13. A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#14. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country. #Quote by Mario Testino

#15. It's all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson's is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#16. When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#17. In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#18. Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature. #Quote by H.E. Bates

#19. I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#20. In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential. #Quote by Jim Doyle

#21. I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better. #Quote by Norman Parkinson

#22. I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. #Quote by George H. W. Bush

#23. I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#24. Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. #Quote by Anne Wojcicki

#25. Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing! #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#26. A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about [Parkinson's disease] to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#27. I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring. #Quote by Norman Parkinson

#28. I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#29. Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#30. The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera #Quote by Norman Parkinson

#31. In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#32. I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not. #Quote by Billy Graham

#33. My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all? #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#34. My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases. #Quote by Shinya Yamanaka

#35. The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#36. In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#37. To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#38. Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune. #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#39. As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#40. They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part. #Quote by Siobhan Parkinson

#41. If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#42. You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#43. Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God #Quote by Muhammad Ali

#44. Slapstick was named after the battacio, or 'slap stick,' which made a dramatic popping sound when actors hit one another with it and which was used in the Commedia dell'arte, an Italian stage tradition whose blend of stereotype, sketch and shtick was passed down through circus and pantomime to vaudeville and burlesque and into cinema #Quote by David Parkinson

#45. Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part. #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#46. The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#47. He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77. #Quote by Lynn Redgrave

#48. Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#49. Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines! #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#50. Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#51. I have referred to it as a gift--something for which others with this affliction have taken me to task. I was only speaking from my own experience, of course, but I stand partially corrected: if it is a gift, it's the gift that just keeps on taking.

Coping with relentless assault and the accumulating damage is not easy. Nobody would ever choose to have this visited upon them. Still, this unexpected crisis forced a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality--or embark upon a journey. Whatever it was--courage? acceptance? wisdom?--that finally allowed me to go down the second road (after spending a few disastrous years on the first) was unquestionably a gift--and absent this neurophysiological catastrophe, I would never have opened it, or been so profoundly enriched. That's why I consider myself a lucky man. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#52. It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#53. In Amsterdam, we used to write down,
Our whispers and dreams by the dawn
Just like we were in Heaven
Just like we were seven
Just like children listening to Anne Frank at that time
Reciting her diaries
Will you remember Amsterdam's memories ?
The dances of snow, of light to the songs of rain
Will you remember again
The rainbow colours of that beautiful Amsterdam ?
When I don't remember maybe who I am
When only the nights of Amsterdam
Stay younger, younger…
And we go older, older…
Will you still answer my call when I give an order ?
Will you hold me when I am older ?
Having a misty memory in my brain
Will you ? will you hold my pain ?
When I am five years old again
When I am hairless,
When I am homeless
When I am stateless
Having only you as a home and state
Will you still hold my little heart
Will you still wait
For me when I am late ?
When I am only five years old again
When I am only tears and pain
When my hippocampus misspells your name
Will you still be the same ?
Will you be sad because I no more can hold you in my arms, honey
Because I have Myopathy, Myasthenia Gravis,
For instance, Osteomalacia,
Osteoporosis, Weakness, Parkinson 's disease or any
Will you ? Will you still love to live with me ?
Just like our forties, thirties, just like our twenties
When I am again five, four or even thr #Quote by Hayet Ben Bada

#54. People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#55. A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#56. In every victory, Let it be said of me ... My source of strength, My source of hope ... Is Christ alone. #Quote by Brian Littrell

#57. It's true. Happiness is a big thing. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#58. Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's. #Quote by Muhammad Ali

#59. I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#60. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up. #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#61. Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#62. Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. #Quote by Neal A. Maxwell

#63. Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation. #Quote by David Perlmutter

#64. It is the busiest man who has time to spare. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#65. My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson? #Quote by Carmen Dell'Orefice

#66. The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#67. You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#68. I guess you're only as good as the waves. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#69. It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad. #Quote by Karen Salmansohn

#70. James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? #Quote by Khaled Hosseini

#71. So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled? #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#72. Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#73. For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#74. I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#75. You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#76. Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. #Quote by Tim Hansel

#77. People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#78. A luxury, once enjoyed, becomes a necessity. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#79. Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#80. In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#81. The only door into her bedroom led through the church. #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#82. The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#83. Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#84. The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#85. Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#86. God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is. #Quote by Muhammad Ali

#87. You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end. #Quote by Margo MacDonald

#88. I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them ... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#89. It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike. #Quote by Roger Parkinson

#90. Fear is a bastard. Fear is an attention whore. I want to ask fear if it has mommy issues, because that's the only reason I can think why it needs attention so bad. I want fear to get Parkinson's. Then maybe fear will know how it feels to be on the run from something it doesn't understand. #Quote by Anne Clendening

#91. I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#92. T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. #Quote by Ronald Reagan

#93. I needed a time machine. I needed to run around the past and gather up all the old, unbroken parts of me and try to Frankenstein myself back together again. My healthy body, my unjaded sixteen-year-old heart, my baby brain. I may not make such a pretty monster, but at least I'd feel like myself again. #Quote by Anne Clendening

#94. Wherever the truth lies, in order to eliminate flicker, the rotating shutter within the projector has to allow each image to be flashed upon the screen twice. Thus, whenever we watch a movie, we spend half the time gazing at an optical illusion and the other half sitting in the dark in front of a blank screen. #Quote by David Parkinson

#95. I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#96. In the morning, I'll usually do eggs and toast, but at night I keep it all protein. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#97. I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#98. I was a purist bore. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

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#100. If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#101. The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#102. Scales are the grammar of music. #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#103. I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#104. Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#105. A compensation is something which does not quite compensate ... #Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes

#106. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#107. You have until midnight."
The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him frozen in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! Potter's there! Someone grab him!"
Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves. #Quote by J.K. Rowling

#108. When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#109. I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#110. I'm a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy. #Quote by Joel Parkinson

#111. There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone. #Quote by Katherine Parkinson

#112. The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#113. I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#114. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists. #Quote by Michael Parkinson

#115. Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

#116. I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate. #Quote by Daniel Boulud

#117. Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. #Quote by Michael J. Fox

#118. In Parkinson disease, double vision arises from the inability of the eyes to keep pace with each other. #Quote by Sotirios Parashos

#119. Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow. #Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson