Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/poux0n5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · 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/und8ojtl · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (715 ratings) · 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/nmt3rb5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
My work is a game -- a very serious game.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/1jlvnd7w · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
tiny.ag/egcfrh1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
tiny.ag/ucgatbjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
tiny.ag/w4pngtxm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1364 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
tiny.ag/i632izqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
tiny.ag/x1qgalmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/ttmfo8x5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
tiny.ag/ey8g1nc6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (243 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qyerpit3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1006 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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