Work and Recreation
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tiny.ag/yqsvb7xj · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
tiny.ag/rgpxjajw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (715 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/und8ojtl · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/npf5ywfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/nyqgzd3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (130 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (552 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/qse5ziat · ★★☆☆ Fair (701 ratings) · submitted 1998
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
tiny.ag/qkpqiaid · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. It's better to belong to the first group because there is less competition.
Unknown, (Wilson on Home Improvement), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/y8tf4vup · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wasting time is an important part of living.
tiny.ag/undqbo35 · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
tiny.ag/mdjkyeno · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Unknown, (Ethiopian proverb), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ugcdh8oe · ★★☆☆ Fair (217 ratings) · submitted 1997
You may only have two of the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of money.
tiny.ag/vtwqjzpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.
Unknown, (probably a misquote of Peter's Principle), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8wyy0jwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Barbara Postman
Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.
Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/3xgs0jwo · ★★☆☆ Fair (196 ratings) · submitted 1997
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
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