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In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.

Ehre's Double-Door Law

Murphy’s Laws Things Doors Pull Push

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

Dennis's Principles of Management by Crisis

Murphy’s Laws Problems Crises Management

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

Sharple’s Philosophy

Murphy’s Laws Virginia Sharples

Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Golden Principle

Murphy’s Laws Objections

Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Whitton's Law

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws People Women Twice as well

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

Boyle’s Twelfth Law

Murphy’s Laws Charts Organizations

If you're already in a hole, there's no use to continue digging.

Walters's Law of Management

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Everyone is always someplace else.

Amand's Law of Management

Murphy’s Laws Places

No project was ever completed on time and within budget.

Cheops Law

Money Murphy’s Laws Time Budget Projects

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

Titanics Generalized Iceberg Theorem

Murphy’s Laws Perception Visible

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Nixon's Rule

Murphy’s Laws Wrongs

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

Jason's Law

Murphy’s Laws Things Toys

Everything is just out of reach.

Wright's Law

Murphy’s Laws Problems Distance Jonathan Wright Proximity

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Utvich's Observation

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Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 65)

These pills can't be habit-forming; I've been taking them for years.

Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.

Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Smile, tomorrow will be worse.

Given any problem containing N equations, there will be N+1 unknowns.

In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

1. A rolling stone gathers momentum.
2. Progress is nondirectional.

Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

If you're already in a hole, there's no use to continue digging.

Everyone is always someplace else.

No project was ever completed on time and within budget.

Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

Everything is just out of reach.

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.