Work and Recreation

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers, in Work and Recreation

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt, in Work and Recreation

Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.

E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell, 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

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

Howard W. Newton, in Work and Recreation

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

C. Northcote Parkinson, in Work and Recreation

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

C. Northcote Parkinson, in Work and Recreation

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George Patton, in Work and Recreation

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

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.

Pericles, in Work and Recreation

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter, in Work and Recreation

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter, in Work and Recreation

You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso, in Work and Recreation

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation