Work and Recreation
156 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
tiny.ag/rgpxjajw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it.
tiny.ag/yqsvb7xj · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
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/qwlroxym · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
tiny.ag/xpfjtqx9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · 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/hrd6aj12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/6r9xpf0v · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · 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/sectwkrh · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
tiny.ag/o4p0buwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · 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/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/npf5ywfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/nyqgzd3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (130 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/q0iwme1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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/upvjznor · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · 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/tcptnzkj · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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