Work and Recreation
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tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · ★★☆☆ Fair (293 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nyqgzd3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (130 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · 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/npf5ywfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/lsxp5q2w · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
tiny.ag/i5ba47dl · ★★☆☆ Fair (478 ratings) · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/veiyrnvp · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
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!
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (552 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/lapwdvsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
tiny.ag/5kc4i3zm · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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/dpsm3a6e · ★★☆☆ Fair (916 ratings) · submitted 1997
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/wjvn8okc · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/2gn81rn4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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/ijbwubwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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