Parkinson Quotes

Parkinson Quote of the day

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.