Work and Recreation
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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/imptt3kq · ★★☆☆ Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/brwg7szk · ★★☆☆ Fair (526 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
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.
tiny.ag/pnfrcj5n · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, 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.
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