Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. - Studs Terkel
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
- Studs Terkel
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count. - Studs Terkel
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication. - Studs Terkel
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. - Studs Terkel
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street. - Studs Terkel
If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'. - Studs Terkel
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it o… - Studs Terkel
We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it o…
The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong. - Studs Terkel
The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got… - Studs Terkel
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got…
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