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“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.”

Needs Mind May Mean Work Pleasure Intervals

Book:Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures

Source: Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures

“Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.”

Mean Work Love Is Miracle Deception

Author:Eleanora Duse

“You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.”

Ifs Men Mean Two Real Hard Seems Age Purpose Realizing Work Hard Work Succeed Twenties Purpose Of Life Life Means Twenty Two

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“Work is the means of living, but it is not living.”

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.”

Ifs Want Should Mean Feelings Happens Age Fall Courses Work Figures Health Offers Husband Sick Intention My Husband Retiring Bob Going Out Going To Work

Author:Dolly Parton

“If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.”

Ifs Men Mean Doe Found Work Destiny Tasks Busy Likes Enthusiasm Mortals Bees Busy Bee

Book:True bills

Source: True bills

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud