Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/mwkuerjp · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/cpaduz0t · submitted 1997
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/rgpxjajw · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
tiny.ag/yqsvb7xj · submitted 1997
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/tzsry6n4 · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
tiny.ag/ih24x6bn · submitted 1997
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ttmfo8x5 · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/x1qgalmq · submitted 1997
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
tiny.ag/i632izqc · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
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