- Abraham Lincoln
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours - all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
- William Faulkner
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm. Second, there are the hard-working intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard-working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everyone. Finally, there are the intelligent lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
- Bernard Baruch
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work - not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
- Mark Twain
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
- Phyllis Diller
I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!
- Luis Buñuel
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
- Donald A. Miller
To the mad every day is a holiday.
- Turkish proverb
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
- Sylvia Robinson
- H. L. Mencken
A working girl is one who quit her job to get married.
- E. J. KieferYou're astonishing. How dare you waste it!
- Seth Godin
You have given me the courage to quit my job. I used to be a tax consultant. Now I'm a human being again.
- Les Oake
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times, definitely will.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
AMAZZOFF
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CHAPTER ONE
Much of a writer I am not.I tend to repeat myself.That’s my job. I repeat myself all day. Repeat,repeat,repeat, then repeat the repeats I’ve already repeated repeatedly.I work on line two.Line two features heavily in this book.In fact you could say the main ingredients of this book are line two,line two and line two.I hate line two.I want it destroyed.I get it destroyed.It takes time and a lot of thought but I get there.Other ingredients in this book are Topiary Conversions,old farts and Sunday lunch at lunchtime on Sunday.
The main characters in this book are myself,the Ned,Sam and Sandy,an obese lady,an idiot cannibal,John and Jim,Mr Jepson,SCRIGGLYMINSH and last but not least my wonderful wife,Mrs MacX.
Mrs MacX doesn’t know I’m writing this.I say writing but much of a writer I am not. I should say JOTTING.Mrs MacX doesn’t know I’m sitting in our house jotting down everything that happened on scraps of paper.She doesn’t know I hate line two and want it destroyed. I want it to blow up and collapse in a heap of twisted metal legs and melted rubber conveyor belt.I don’t know if my fellow workers want the same.It’s not as if I can ask them.You’re not allowed to chat idly about destroying the company in company time.Outwith company time we get two breaks.That’s it.Two breaks of ten and twenty minutes in an eight hour shift and the last people you would want to talk to on these breaks are your fellow workers and the last thing you would want to talk about is the company so you can see it’s a bit of a conundrum trying to recruit co-conspirators.And of course the big flaw in my plan to destroy line two is that either I’ll get sacked and have no money or the company will just move me to line one.I know nothing about line one.It can’t possibly be as bad as line two can it? And what’s so bad about line two I hear you ask.Let me tell you about line two.
My training lasted around three minutes.Push this,press that,lift this,stack that.On and on and on it goes for the entire shift.Push,press,lift,stack.Push,press,lift,stack.Push,press,lift,stack. It never changes.It can’t change.
Chapter one was awesome. I hope there's a chapter 2 =)
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