#lis

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#character #description #down #even #going

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#days #i #i can #instance #intentionally

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#accomplished #employees #incompetence #level #reached

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#establish #expert #guesses #make #reputation

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#creating #hard #interest #jobs #lose

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #as far as #business #concerned #cult

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. ↗

— Tom Peters

#energy #enthusiasm #in the past #learn #must

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall. ↗

— William Petersen

#another #anybody #bad #bad guys #been

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#become #billie #billie holiday #extraordinary #holiday