Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/poux0n5r · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/upvjznor · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/npf5ywfi · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/veiyrnvp · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · submitted 1997
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!
tiny.ag/ijspqkhd · submitted 1997
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/zjurgdnl · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/ggsm1y50 · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · submitted 1997
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/5kc4i3zm · submitted 1997
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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