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Work and Recreation
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# · 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.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well done is better than well said.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to work.
# · Unrated · 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
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
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