The quote may not be exact.  What was the exact quote and who said it?
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For many, the Peter Principle (PP) was a revelation. For me too. I was, I realised, not, after all, the unique victim of bloody minded destiny. And neither are you. Our positions of oppression were, and are, produced by a natural law of the universe. Yes indeed. Someone had at last explained why it is that so many people in positions of authority seem to be incompetent. They are. In case you missed this gem of insight, let me recap. \n\nThe Peter Principle states that - \n\nIn a mature bureaucracy people are promoted to their own level of incompetence. \n\nWhen a person, working in a hierarchical bureaucracy, does his or her task competently, he or she will gain promotion to a higher post which is more demanding. If the person finds this new task beyond his or her capabilities he or she will then perform that task incompetently. No further promotion will be gained and the person will, from that moment on, be stuck in that post. The PP has about it the simple elegance of Darwin's theory of evolution. When it is explained, you see that it must be so and you wonder who you didn't think of it yourself. And yet ... it contains an insidious flaw. \n\nDeficiencies of the Peter Principle.\n\n(1) When a person is promoted (the promotEE), there has to be another person (the promotER) who does the promoting. The Peter Principle depends crucially upon the promoter's job being performed competently. The promoter must be able to distinguish competence from incompetence in candidates for promotion. So what happens if the promoter has already reached his or her level of incompetence? And there are other sources of error in the Peter Principle -\n\n(2) PP contains a hidden assumption that the difficulty of a task, at any level in a hierarchy, increases with increasing level. And we all know that that is not always true. The hardest task in any hierarchy is the one YOU are doing. Everyone else is getting a ride on your back especially the person who is just one level above you. \n\n(3) PP also assumes that there is only one kind of difficulty and only one kind of competence. Again not true. As predicted by the PP the best football players do not always make good managers but is it not also true that some of the best managers were indifferent players. Further - \n\n(4) PP predicts that when a person reaches their incompetence level they will be only marginally incompetent. The theory does not begin to explain the ubiquitous presence of super-incompetence. How, for example, can it explain how John Major became the British Prime Minister when he had already reached his incompetence level when he was a trainee bank clerk? So there has to be more. The PP may be a valuable insight, it may explain why so many people in high places are incompetent, but it not why they are so abysmally incompetent.
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Who was it that said something like "You can feed a man a fish and that would take away his hunger for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he can feed himself for a lifetime." The problem can't be solved by moving people between point A to B, but rather by teaching them how to help themselves through education....
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Hi Violet.\n\nWhat area of tort were you reading about? I don't have this particular book as it is too far out of date.\n\nThere must be some context in which importance was attached to what was said, perhaps a reference to some precident or case?
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those are all good quotes but this is the one i live by: \n\n"In the end, its the chances we never took that we regret the most" \n\nOn the show frasier, frasier said it on his season finale and i never forgot it, i try to live by it but it is not always easy. i would love to know who originally came up with it is.  whenever i get scared to take a class i just read this saying, i even framed it on my wall
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Interesting how so many people quote a different part of the bible without dealing with the fact that there is a clear contradictino here.\n\nTHis guy posted a verse that says basically, ask and you shall receive. Not "I'll think about it", but you shall receive.  And you all quote verses saying "not so fast".  Well, which is it? Can we move mountains with faith? Only if it's for a good cause? What?
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"When the President does it, that means its not illegal."\n           -Richard Nixon\n\nAnd we all know how that turned out...
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I dont know, perhaps but you would have to talk to the person who wrote said verse to find out what they were talking about.
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Yes, I did hear that. Do I know it to be true? Dunno. I friggin hope not. Just cause someone says it, doesn't mean that I should take it as truth. This doesn't apply to everything, as all situations are different, but this situation I choose to not believe it. Your question says, "On average...". Average, huh? Then I'll be the one it doesn't happen to...well, maybe just one, but no more! heh. I truly can't say. But then: where the hell did they come up with that stat anyway?
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"Be careful who you pretend to be, because you day you just might loose who you really are"\n\n-ME
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This quotation, sometimes with minor changes, appears many times on the Internet, always without attribution to any particular poem -- except once or twice where the poem that is said to contain the quote turns out not to have it.\n\nI checked a couple of scholarly databases and found nothing there.\n\nWhile it's bizarre to have a misquote itself widely quoted, that is not unknown. It's possible Yeats never wrote or said it.\n\nYou might want to ask on this forum of experts: http://killdevilhill.com/yeatschat/wwwboard.html
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Here:\n\nhttp://www.bernardsboe.com/Cedar-Hill/Linked_pages/grade4/warquotes.htm
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According to Wikipedia, origins of this saying are unknown.......
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Aha! but there is another wise saying: "he who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever".  Surely this is the whole philosophy behind Yahoo Answers!
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Although it's really tough to find a particular quote if you are not aware of the author, but still i am attaching a link of the website, try finding your quote in the same.\n\nAll the best.
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yes go to quotations.com
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Cud be true to some extent partially or fully. But in anycase everywhere such things happen. It doesnot matter who said but doest it matter to us in reality or is it reflects something in real sense to our real life. Answer to this matters the truth of the story.
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The correct quote is\n\n"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre minds." \n\nIt was Einstein