Work and Recreation

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon, in Work and Recreation

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

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

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Don't remember what you can infer.

Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and 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

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

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, in Work and Recreation

There are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. It's better to belong to the first group because there is less competition.

Unknown, (Wilson on Home Improvement), in Work and Recreation

Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Unknown, 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

The early bird catches the worm.

Unknown, 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

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

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