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Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.


Peter Straub

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PETER USTINOV I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c...
PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
PETER MARSHALL Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we s...
PETER MARSHALL We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
PETER DRUCKER Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER The computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
PETER DRUCKER Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
PETER LATHAM All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
PETER GILCREST