"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."

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Source : Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

Studs Terkel

#Friday Quotes #Monday Quotes #Dying Quotes

“Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.”
“What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012
“There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.”
“What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.”
“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
“I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.”
“In order to put it into perspective, as an actor, it's super hard to get on a TV show. If you get on one, it's super hard for that show to be reasonably successful. All of that, on paper, seems pretty special. It's the sum of the parts, really. To roll the dice and come up with this particular show is pretty fortunate. I'm very happy about Silicon Valley series. It's changed everything for me.”
“I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.”

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