Work and Recreation

Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Nick Gorski, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

Georges Guynemer, in Work and Recreation

No vacation goes unpunished.

Karl A. Hakkarainen, in Work and Recreation

Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness, in Work and Recreation

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway, in Work and Recreation

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in 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

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

Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.

Bryan Munro, in Work and Recreation

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

Howard W. Newton, in Work and Recreation

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

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

Douglas Adams, 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

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, in Work and Recreation