Work and Recreation

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford, in Work and Recreation

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Work and Recreation

Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.

Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in 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

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, 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