The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!! — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured. — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias 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
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
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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 me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you… — Orison Swett Marden 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
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
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very… — Ted Allen 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
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the… — Herbert Marcuse 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
Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands. — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image