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Work and Recreation
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
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People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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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
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · 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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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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