The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Interpretation
Work can be pleasurable if one finds satisfaction in their specialized skills without needing external validation.
Bertrand Russellβs quote emphasizes that true fulfillment from work comes not from seeking recognition or approval from others, but from the intrinsic pleasure one derives from developing and exercising oneβs specialized skills. It suggests that if an individual can appreciate their own expertise and the joy it brings, they can experience the pleasure of work regardless of outside accolades.
In practice
During a team meeting, one might say this quote to encourage employees to find joy in their tasks regardless of external recognition.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games
I want to thank the NBA and U.S.A. Basketball. Words can't describe my feeling. I was a small town kid from Hamburg, Arkansas, and you provided me a platform to live out my passion, the game of basketball, on the world's grandest stage.
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