Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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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/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/tzsry6n4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men have become the tools of their tools.
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/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/nkplriz2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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/zsifm5dt · ★★☆☆ Fair (293 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/dpsm3a6e · ★★☆☆ Fair (916 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/zwhygpoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · 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/lfgwyibv · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
tiny.ag/vyrtb5n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
tiny.ag/7en31ycm · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.
tiny.ag/nculh4pd · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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