Work and Recreation

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser, in Work and Recreation

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and 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

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

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Work and Recreation

It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and 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

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Jane Hopkins, in Work and Recreation

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

If food were free, why work?

Doug Horton, in Work and Recreation

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.

Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard, in Work and Recreation