You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on,… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
“Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
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