Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
jobs people lines
Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
book people information
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
dare
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
spring trickle-down
Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
phones government databases
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
thinking despair world
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
jobs vision spirit
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
book religion roles
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
communication
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.
grace want courses
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
knowledge thinking years
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 something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.
bread wells daily-bread
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
differences people want
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
friday monday dying
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.