Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/cdzh2i5q · submitted 1997
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
tiny.ag/0tuizhv2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
tiny.ag/eckozapq · submitted 1997
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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/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/imptt3kq · submitted 1997
Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
tiny.ag/brwg7szk · submitted 1997
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
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/gfpih4lb · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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/5gcdbjbx · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/1j7y2lxu · submitted 1997
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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/lsxp5q2w · submitted 1997
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
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