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Work and Recreation

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tiny.ag/hevntg1m  ·  submitted 1997

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/vfh9sa41  ·  submitted 1997

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/kyj5oc1q  ·  submitted 1997

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

George Winters, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/ocikwgsj  ·  submitted 1997

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

Georges Wolinski, in 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.

Henry David Thoreau, in Work and Recreation

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.

Henry David Thoreau, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/17uoj5hx  ·  submitted 1997

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

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/zwhygpoj  ·  submitted 1997

Pooh's Little Instruction Book (hardcover)

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/lfgwyibv  ·  submitted 1997

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8  ·  submitted 1997

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/7en31ycm  ·  submitted 1997

People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/nculh4pd  ·  submitted 1997

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/wbfvn5e9  ·  submitted 1997

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/2gn81rn4  ·  submitted 1997

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/nkplriz2  ·  submitted 1997

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt, in Work and Recreation

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/lapwdvsc  ·  submitted 1997

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/5kc4i3zm  ·  submitted 1997

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation