Work and Recreation

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.

Unknown, (German proverb), in Work and Recreation

God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

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.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau, in Work and Recreation

Don't remember what you can infer.

Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau, in Work and Recreation

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.

Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and 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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser, in Work and Recreation

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation