Daily bread Quote by Studs Terkel

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor;…

— Studs Terkel

“All of us, Terkel concluded, are looking for “daily meaning as well as daily bread . . . for a sort of life rather…

— Angela Duckworth

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

— Studs Terkel

“Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day…

— Gordon T. Smith

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a…

— George Bernard Shaw

“During a working day, there’s nothing I look forward to more than an evening of nothing at all. A meal. A beer or a…

— Herman Koch

“My business is not a stepping stone to ‘better’ things, but a lifestyle choice and a way of work uniquely crafted to fit and…

— Robert Gerrish

“The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Work means offering a valuable product or service – and that work has to inspire people to pay you for it.”

— Paul Jarvis

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

— Thomas Carlyle

“ Work does not “give” dignity to our lives through the excellence or happiness it fosters. The dignity of work comes less from its…

— Russell Muirhead

“The work equalises the emotions, and enables the two submerged to surface in series of unpredictable configurations. Work is the constant carnival; words, the…

— Gillian Rose