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“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.”

“I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.”

Made Said Self Helping Wanted Opportunity Work Saws Paid Raises Quitting Gas Stations Boss I Quit Gas Stations Self Service

Author:Steven Wright

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”

“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”

Ifs Men Would Be Wanted Work Terrible Meaningful Punishment Useless Crush Destroying Meaningless Usefulness Uselessness Meaningful Work

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!”

“It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.”

Want Art Wanted Artist Work Relationship Style Masters Unconscious Literal

Author:Sherrie Levine

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

Has Beens Age Wanted Funny Work Vision Growing Six Ambition Seven Witty Cooks My Ambition Age And Youth Life Ambition

Author:Salvador Dali

“I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.”

Ifs Wanted Reading Work Picks Decided Lists

Author:Sarah Zettel