Laboriously Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
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I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,…
— Edward Lear
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What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
— Friedrich Schiller
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
— Mark Twain
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He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it…
— John Ruskin
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The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over…
— Eileen Myles
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and…
— Robert Musil
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
— Mirra Komarovsky
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
— A. P. Herbert
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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual…
— Arthur Koestler
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible…
— Lynne Truss
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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and…
— H. L. Mencken
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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
— Hugo Grotius
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Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently…
— Albert Einstein
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What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person…
— Rollo May
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off…
— Robert Genn
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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we…
— Marcus Garvey
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