Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fdy85ooy · submitted 1997
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
tiny.ag/1j7y2lxu · submitted 1997
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · 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/s3vd0gnl · 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/npf5ywfi · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/nyqgzd3d · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · 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/vtwqjzpa · 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/ugcdh8oe · 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/qse5ziat · 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/1jlvnd7w · submitted 1997
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
tiny.ag/w4pngtxm · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
tiny.ag/ucgatbjm · submitted 1997
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
tiny.ag/egcfrh1m · submitted 1997
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
tiny.ag/nqmdzsyl · submitted 1997
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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