Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · 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/iyzc6ufd · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/tzsry6n4 · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
tiny.ag/ih24x6bn · 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/cpaduz0t · 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/mwkuerjp · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · 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/veiyrnvp · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · 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/8wyy0jwo · 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/cdzh2i5q · submitted 1997
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
tiny.ag/3xgs0jwo · submitted 1997
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/me4bnv2q · submitted 1997
Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
tiny.ag/lapwdvsc · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
tiny.ag/pftkqbv2 · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
tiny.ag/2gn81rn4 · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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