Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/lqexisvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (2837 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way round is through.
tiny.ag/z9ylo64a · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most problems are either unimportant or impossible to solve.
Victor Galaz, (on why he is so silent during meetings), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/7graufwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1408 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3392 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/zjurgdnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · ★★☆☆ Fair (1049 ratings) · 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/ggsm1y50 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/nmt3rb5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
My work is a game -- a very serious game.
tiny.ag/poux0n5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fdy85ooy · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · ★★☆☆ Fair (491 ratings) · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mgtvsjqa · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/oqpuijzx · ★★☆☆ Fair (625 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/0adqbc8f · ★★☆☆ Fair (518 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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