Drudgery Quotes

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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,… — Charles Babbage
Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and… — James Ogilvy
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?… — Charles Lamb
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the… — Betty Friedan
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be… — Alan Watts
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes… — Berenice Abbott
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth… — B. C. Forbes
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing...… — Martha Van Rensselaer
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a… — E. Stanley Jones
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible… — Max Ehrmann
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!! — Brett Weston
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. — Margaret Fuller
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything… — John Edensor Littlewood
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone.… — Sarah McLachlan
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds… — Simon Raven
With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a… — Robert Greene
Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,… — P.J. O'Rourke

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