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Work and Recreation
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# · Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
# · Bad (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · 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!
# · Not So Good (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework — after four years it doesn't get any worse.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
# · Good (one rating) · 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.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
# · Not So Good (18 ratings) · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.
# · Not So Good (6 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
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
# · Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
# · Not So Good (5 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
# · Very Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
My work is a game — a very serious game.
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