"I'm not up on the Internet, but I……" — Studs Terkel
"I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world."
—
Studs Terkel
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
65 Quotes by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel has 65 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and…
-
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
-
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
-
When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
-
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps…
-
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
-
I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me.…
-
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
-
I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
-
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations…
-
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can…
-
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of…
See all 65 quotes by Studs Terkel »
More Connect Quotes
This quote is filed under Connect Quotes,
one of 956 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
-
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
— Martha Beck
-
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
-
Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still…
— Kobe Bryant
-
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers…
— Herman Cain
-
So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you…
— Wallace D. Wattles
-
People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.
— Chris Brogan
-
News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are…
— Rupert Murdoch
-
More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there…
— Lance Secretan
-
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
— John Dewey
-
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our…
— William James
-
Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they…
— John C. Maxwell
See all 956 Connect Quotes »