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Work and Recreation
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. [Select] There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. [Select] 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. [Select] Unknown (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter) All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. [Select] The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. [Select] Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah [Shop] {Also in: Success and Failure} Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. [Select] Ben Bayol {Also in: Success and Failure} Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. [Select] It gets late early out there. [Select] Yogi Berra (on Yankee Stadium in the fall) Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. [Select] Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com) 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! [Select] Garth Brooks {Also in: Life and Death} Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. [Select] He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. [Select] There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse. [Select] 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. [Select] A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. [Select] If there is no struggle, there is no progress. [Select] Efficiency is intelligent laziness. [Select] A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper. [Select] Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. [Select] Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. [Select]
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