Work and Recreation
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tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (1649 ratings) · submitted 1999
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
tiny.ag/pftkqbv2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
tiny.ag/g6oi3hzo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1079 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/kwzypjqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (475 ratings) · submitted 1997
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (826 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/lsxp5q2w · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
tiny.ag/ijspqkhd · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1006 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1204 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/und8ojtl · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/1qmfwyu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1177 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/rgpxjajw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
tiny.ag/h30nvlal · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
tiny.ag/kk02yrtg · ★★☆☆ Fair (166 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
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