Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · 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/5rylx71v · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/oqpuijzx · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
tiny.ag/mgtvsjqa · submitted 1997
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/0adqbc8f · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
tiny.ag/imptt3kq · submitted 1997
Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/brwg7szk · submitted 1997
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
tiny.ag/kwzypjqf · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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/lapwdvsc · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
tiny.ag/5kc4i3zm · submitted 1997
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
tiny.ag/wbfvn5e9 · submitted 1997
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
tiny.ag/2gn81rn4 · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
tiny.ag/nkplriz2 · submitted 1997
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/und8ojtl · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
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