Work and Recreation

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

C. Northcote Parkinson, in Work and Recreation

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

C. Northcote Parkinson, in Work and Recreation

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

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.

Robert Orben, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

Howard W. Newton, in Work and Recreation

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Work and Recreation

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.

Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in Work and Recreation

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser, in Work and Recreation

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway, in Work and Recreation

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford, in Work and Recreation

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Work and Recreation

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Jane Hopkins, in Work and Recreation