Drudgery Quotes

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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life. — Samuel Smiles
I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. — Richard Branson
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. — Peter Benchley
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and… — Lara St. John
I read once that the true mark of a pro â€” at anything â€” is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the… — Paul Halmos
Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what… — Richard Clarke Cabot
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery… — Thomas Jefferson
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations. — John Wooden
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that… — George Bernard Shaw
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring… — James Henry Hammond
It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery… — Joyce Maynard
To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and… — Ted Allen
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in… — Seth Godin
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. — Dave Eggers
A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over. — Carolyn Crane
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is… — Henri Poincare

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