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Work and Recreation
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# · Not So Good (39 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1999
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
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
The early bird catches the worm.
# · Not So Good (43 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Jason Zalinger
Z-man's Law: When the paper is due, the printer will jam.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
Direct (audio CD)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation
Pooh's Little Instruction Book (hardcover)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato, The Republic, in Work and Recreation
The Republic (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
The Prince (paperback)# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.
Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation
Dune (paperback)# · Not So Good (19 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
Catch-22 (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
The Legendary Mizners (paperback)# · Not So Good (35 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999) ·
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (paperback)
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Austin Holmes
Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.
# · Unrated · submitted (updated 1998)
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998
Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.
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