Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
tiny.ag/npf5ywfi · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/nyqgzd3d · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · submitted 1997
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
tiny.ag/mwkuerjp · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/cpaduz0t · submitted 1997
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
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/7en31ycm · submitted 1997
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
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