Work and Recreation

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato, The Republic, in Work and Recreation

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

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!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

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

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Havelock Ellis, in Work and Recreation

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

M. C. Escher, in Work and Recreation

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford, in Work and Recreation

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard, in Work and Recreation

People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.

Elbert Hubbard, in Work and Recreation

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, in Work and Recreation

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation