Work and Recreation

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. [Select]

Thomas Alva Edison {Also in: Success and Failure}

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. [Select]

Albert Einstein

Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield. [Select]

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. [Select]

Scott Elledge (on his retirement from Cornell University) {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

Havelock Ellis

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson {Also in: Success and Failure}

My work is a game -- a very serious game. [Select]

M. C. Escher

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

Henry Ford

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. [Select]

Benjamin Franklin {Also in: Success and Failure}

Well done is better than well said. [Select]

Benjamin Franklin

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve. [Select]

Robert Frost {Also in: Success and Failure}

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to work. [Select]

Robert Frost

Most problems are either unimportant or impossible to solve. [Select]

Victor Galaz (on why he is so silent during meetings)

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. [Select]

Mahatma Gandhi {Also in: Law and Politics}

We will burn that bridge when we come to it. [Select]

Nick Gorski {Also in: Success and Failure}

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. [Select]

Georges Guynemer

No vacation goes unpunished. [Select]

Karl A. Hakkarainen

Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary. [Select]

Richard Harkness

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them. [Select]

Joseph Heller: Catch-22 [Shop]

Never mistake motion for action. [Select]

Ernest Hemingway

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