Ambition Quote by Wendell Berry

“The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity,…

— Wendell Berry

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

— Peter Drucker

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…

— T. S. Eliot

“If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work.”

— Brené Brown

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“But is work something we have a right to escape? And can we escape it with impunity? We are probably the first entire people…

— Wendell Berry

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked…

— Edith Wharton

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

— Stephen Covey

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Employment depreciates you”

— Sunday Adelaja