“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
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