Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · submitted 1997
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/dpsm3a6e · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/sectwkrh · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · 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.
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/6r9xpf0v · submitted 1997
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/xpfjtqx9 · submitted 1997
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
tiny.ag/qwlroxym · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
tiny.ag/i632izqc · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
tiny.ag/x1qgalmq · submitted 1997
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/ttmfo8x5 · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
tiny.ag/pftkqbv2 · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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