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Bruce Springsteen on Work
February 23, 2016
If we miss the moment, we miss the clues. In the present, when we allow ourselves to fully live there, we are restored, made wiser, made deeper and happier.
-Marianne Williamson

In Why We Work (New York: Ted Books, 2015), Barry Schwartz includes this quote from Bruce Springsteen:

"I understand it's the music that keeps me alive....  That's my lifeblood.  And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses — that's not the American dream....  Those are the booby prizes.  And if you fall for them, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself — then you've been suckered in.  Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.  So you gotta be vigilant.  You gotta carry the idea you began with further.  And, you gotta hope you're headed for the higher ground."





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Lori · February 23, 2016
Pennsylvania, United States


Love Bruce too, but I don't think he is lacking any of those 'booby' prizes.

Terry · February 23, 2016
Spirit Child Yoga and ECE
Aurora, ON, Canada


Love Bruce, but did he ever try to survive on a typical ECE salary?



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