Work and Recreation

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso, in Work and Recreation

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato, The Republic, in Work and Recreation

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt, in Work and Recreation

Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.

E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams, in 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

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

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.

Bryan Munro, in Work and Recreation