#ten

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#cause #ever #five #friends #i

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#any #better #first #i #instance

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

#also #am #attending #award #called

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

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#being #built #consists #ground #having

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

— Laurence J. Peter

#accomplished #employees #incompetence #level #reached

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#beholder #competence #contact #eye #eye of the beholder

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#every #hierarchy #his #incompetence #level

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ↗