Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/ey8g1nc6 · submitted 1997
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/npf5ywfi · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/zjurgdnl · submitted 1997
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/klzpgkqd · submitted 1997
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
tiny.ag/vmqykh2c · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/ggsm1y50 · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/tcptnzkj · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
tiny.ag/upvjznor · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
tiny.ag/gsfxhwto · submitted 1997
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/jdx09rkj · submitted 1997
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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