Status Updates From A Revolta de Atlas

"...to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor & sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that your work is the process of achieving your values, & to lose your ambition for values is to lose you ambition to live...that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch...(933-4).