Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/upvjznor · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qwlroxym · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
tiny.ag/xpfjtqx9 · submitted 1997
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nmt3rb5r · submitted 1997
My work is a game -- a very serious game.
tiny.ag/poux0n5r · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
tiny.ag/kwzypjqf · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
tiny.ag/ijspqkhd · submitted 1997
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
tiny.ag/pftkqbv2 · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
tiny.ag/g6oi3hzo · submitted 1997
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.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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