Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/qwlroxym · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
tiny.ag/xpfjtqx9 · submitted 1997
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/6r9xpf0v · submitted 1997
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · submitted 1997
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
tiny.ag/sectwkrh · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/dpsm3a6e · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8 · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
tiny.ag/1jlvnd7w · submitted 1997
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · 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/ucgatbjm · 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/egcfrh1m · submitted 1997
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
tiny.ag/ttmfo8x5 · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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