Work and Recreation
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tiny.ag/fdy85ooy · submitted 1997
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/1jlvnd7w · submitted 1997
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
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/und8ojtl · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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/ugcdh8oe · submitted 1997
You may only have two of the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of money.
tiny.ag/qse5ziat · submitted 1998
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
tiny.ag/h7w28305 · submitted 1997
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/k4nebyuf · submitted 1999 by Austin Holmes
Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.
tiny.ag/qxbfoafe · submitted 1997
Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
tiny.ag/xadsxg7n · submitted 1997
First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.
tiny.ag/51wy2e6t · submitted (updated 28 Apr)
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
tiny.ag/rfwbcxnu · submitted 1997
God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
tiny.ag/ximercsy · submitted 1997
God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
Unknown, (German proverb), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/milcq4ya · submitted 1997
Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.
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