Work and Recreation

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Harold R. McAlindon, in Work and Recreation

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Work and Recreation

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln, in Work and Recreation

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling, in Work and Recreation

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

Doug Larson, in Work and Recreation

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.

Doug Larson, in Work and Recreation

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tsu, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tsu, in Work and Recreation

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser, in Work and Recreation

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Publius Terentius Afer, in Work and Recreation

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley, in Work and Recreation

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams, in Work and Recreation

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation