Work and Recreation
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tiny.ag/npf5ywfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/lkeuhfbn · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (552 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
tiny.ag/cpaduz0t · ★★☆☆ Fair (799 ratings) · submitted 1997
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis, (from the album Direct), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mwkuerjp · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · ★★☆☆ Fair (356 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/ih24x6bn · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.
tiny.ag/tzsry6n4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
tiny.ag/iyzc6ufd · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't remember what you can infer.
Harry Tennant, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 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!
tiny.ag/wbfvn5e9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/2gn81rn4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (197 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/lapwdvsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
tiny.ag/5kc4i3zm · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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