Work and Recreation

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

Albert Einstein, in Work and Recreation

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Work and Recreation

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

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

Havelock Ellis, in Work and Recreation

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

M. C. Escher, in Work and Recreation

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

Henry Ford, in Work and Recreation

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin, in Work and Recreation

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

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

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.

Robert Frost, in Work and Recreation

The only way round is through.

Robert Frost, in Work and Recreation

Most problems are either unimportant or impossible to solve.

Victor Galaz, (on why he is so silent during meetings), in Work and Recreation

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.

Quentin Crisp, in Work and Recreation

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.

Leonardo Da Vinci, in Work and Recreation