Cyril Northcote Parkinson citáty

„Šikovnosť je schopnosť urobiť niečo nie práve ľahkého. Schopnosť je spôsobilosť niečo zariadiť pomocou snahy a šikovnosti iných.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Reakcia neschopného človeka je vždy rovnaká a jeho odpoveď nemenná: Ja za to nemôžem.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Vek manželky sa rovná polovičnému veku manžela plus sedem.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Práca narastá tak, aby vyplnila všetok čas, ktorý pre ňu máme k dispozícii.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Zdržovanie je najsmrteľnejšou formou odmietnutia.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Rovnako ako neodpustia človeku, ktorému ublížili, rovnako tak ľudia neodpustia ani tomu, ktorého dobrou radou sa neriadili.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Umenie zostavovať formuláre na vypĺňanie sa skladá z troch prvkov: nejasnosti, nedostatku miesta a čo najťažších trestov za nesprávne vyplnenie.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Manželstvo je spoločné konto, ktoré môže zostať aktívne, len keď do neho prispievajú obaja partneri.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Človek, ktorému máme vypláca rentu, bude žiť večne.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

„Každá práca trvá tak dlho, koľko času je na ňu k dispozícii.“

—  Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Law . It is based on an article published in The Economist (November 1955).
Kontext: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occasional phases of doubt) that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to be done. Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours. But this is a matter in which faith and doubt seem equally misplaced. The fact is that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work are not related to each other at all. The rise in the total of those employed is governed by Parkinson's Law and would be much the same whether the volume of the work were to increase, diminish, or even disappear. The importance of Parkinson's Law lies in the fact that it is a law of growth based upon an analysis of the factors by which that growth is controlled.

„Delay is the deadliest form of denial.“

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

The Law of Delay (1970).

„The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.“

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).

„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.“

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

The Economist (November 1955).

„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.“

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

Cited in:Lionel G. Titman (1990), The Effective Office: A Handbook of Modern Office Management. p. 117
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)

„A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.“

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

p. 60; cited in: Craig Calhoun (2012), Contemporary Sociological Theory, p. 254

„Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.“

—  C. Northcote Parkinson

Cited in: Ian Charles Jarvie (2014), Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92). p. 34
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)