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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

W. H. Auden
Success, Work, Thinking

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

W. H. Auden
Work, Thinking, Men

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden
Success, Patience, Work

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

W. H. Auden
Work, Devil, Done
W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.83, DEBOLS!LLO

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.

W. H. Auden
Work, Writing, Clerks
W. H. Auden, “The Fall Of Rome”

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

W. H. Auden
Jobs, Work, Men

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