You Must Love Your Work In Order to do Great Work

"...before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity...that's not the motive of my work. Nor my reason. Nor my reward."

You must love your work. What you do must be enjoyable in and of itself if it is to be of any consequence. That is how greatness is achieved.

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The Meaning of Life is to Create

"'Look, Gail.' Roark got up, reached out out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. 'Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life.'

'Your strength?'

'Your work.' He tossed the branch aside. 'The material the earth offers you and what you make of it...'"

Rand on the meaning of life. We are creators. We must create and to love and enjoy our work.

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Do You Love your Work, or Love to Escape it?

"These people were enjoying a day of their existence; they were shrieking to the sky their release from the work and the burdens of the days behind them; they had worked and carried the burdens in order to reach a goal - and this was the goal. [Howard] looked at the car as it streaked past. He thought that there was a difference, some important difference, between the consciousness of this day in him and in them."

This occurs while Howard is positively joyful, because he is finally watching his first house getting built. He then watches a car race past with a group of joyful people. The difference is that Howard is deriving his joy from his work, while these people are joyful precisely because they are away from their work.

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Timeless Idea: Always Be Productive

Always Be Productive

when men are employ'd they are best content'd; for on the days they worked they were good natur'd and cheerful, and with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their pork, the bread, etc., and in continual ill-humor

Franklin is a big proponent of industriousness. 

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