Work and Recreation

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley, in Work and Recreation

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, in Work and Recreation

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Publius Terentius Afer, in Work and Recreation

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams, in Work and Recreation

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

Doug Larson, in Work and Recreation

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Work and Recreation

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln, in Work and Recreation

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling, in Work and Recreation

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tsu, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tsu, in Work and Recreation

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation