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Work and Recreation
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
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
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
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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