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Work Quotes by Studs Terkel
- All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like…
- I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
- Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
- 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…
- How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon