Energy Quote by Erich Fromm

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the…

— Susan Sontag

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

— Julia Cameron

“If a man acts in a purely mechanical way, reacting to external demands or instruction rather than in ways determined by his own interests…

— Noam Chomsky

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find…

— Tom Burr

“assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of rebellious delight,…

— Robert Grudin

Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

— Victor Hugo

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly…

— Joan Didion

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald