Work and Recreation

You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso, in Work and Recreation

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato, The Republic, in Work and Recreation

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Work and Recreation

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince, in Work and Recreation

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley, in Work and Recreation

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser, in Work and Recreation