Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · submitted 1997
Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.
E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nkplriz2 · submitted 1997
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
tiny.ag/2gn81rn4 · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
tiny.ag/wbfvn5e9 · submitted 1997
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
tiny.ag/nculh4pd · submitted 1997
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
tiny.ag/7en31ycm · submitted 1997
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
tiny.ag/poux0n5r · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8 · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
tiny.ag/lfgwyibv · submitted 1997
Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
tiny.ag/pftkqbv2 · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
tiny.ag/ijspqkhd · submitted 1997
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · submitted 1997
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qwlroxym · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
tiny.ag/xpfjtqx9 · submitted 1997
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/6r9xpf0v · submitted 1997
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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