Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. — Richard Wagner 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
So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law,… — Cheryl Mendelson 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
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
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
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
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of… — James Ogilvy Copy Share Image
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
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
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,… — Martha Van Rensselaer 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
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery. — William Dobell 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
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
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
