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QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Laurence J. Peter
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Quotes By author - Starting with L - Laurence J. Peter
There are 59 quotes for the author Laurence J. Peter
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Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Subject:  Life    Fate & Destiny    Creativity   
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Subject:  Wisdom    Logic    Ignorance   
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Subject:  Humor    Logic   
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Subject:  Education   
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Subject:  Humor    Wealth   
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Subject:  Facts    Statistics   
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
Subject:  Belief   
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Subject:  Intelligence   
Work: 
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Subject:  Competence   
Oh, what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to believe!

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Subject:  Effort   
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Subject:  Bureaucracy   
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Subject:  Competence   
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Subject:  Competence   
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Subject:  Competence   
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Subject:  Miscellaneous   
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Subject:  Miscellaneous   
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Subject:  Democracy   
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

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