“Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a… — Pat Conroy 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
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. — Orison Swett Marden 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
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov 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
Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery,… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
