Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · 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/kk02yrtg · ★★☆☆ Fair (166 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
tiny.ag/h30nvlal · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
tiny.ag/sectwkrh · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/lkeuhfbn · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/upvjznor · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
tiny.ag/0adqbc8f · ★★☆☆ Fair (518 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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.
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