Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/brwg7szk · ★★☆☆ Fair (526 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/imptt3kq · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (826 ratings) · 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/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/veiyrnvp · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · ★★☆☆ Fair (356 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
tiny.ag/mwkuerjp · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
tiny.ag/cpaduz0t · ★★☆☆ Fair (799 ratings) · submitted 1997
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/1j7y2lxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/tzsry6n4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
tiny.ag/ih24x6bn · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.
tiny.ag/0adqbc8f · ★★☆☆ Fair (518 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
tiny.ag/mgtvsjqa · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/oqpuijzx · ★★☆☆ Fair (625 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · ★★☆☆ Fair (491 ratings) · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
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