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My best work is always done ... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery. — William Dobell

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture. — Sweety Shinde

Of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. — David Hume

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world. — Inscription On A Church Wall In Sussex England C. 1730

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands. — John Kasich

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine. — Ross Parsley

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. — Colleen Barrett

Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy. — Billy Graham

My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin. — C.S. Lewis

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley

We've been conditioned to think of work as drudgery, a chore you endure in exchange for a paycheck. And this is a problem. When — Jeff Goins

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace. — Philip Zaleski

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 direction. — George Bernard Shaw

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. — Geraldine Brooks

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!! — Brett Weston

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy

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

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. — Margaret Fuller

His experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ... — W. Somerset Maugham

A bad job is drudgery; a good job is slavery. — Marty Rubin

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone. — Peter Bayne

I foresee, that, if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery. — Henry David Thoreau

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. — Tallulah Bankhead

To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery. — James Dashner

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world. — James Patterson

Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory. — Jim Dunnigan

After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking. — James Dashner

A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary. — Leonard Ravenhill

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery. — Mahatma Gandhi

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. — Gordon B. Hinckley

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. — Ursula Burns

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. — Richard Branson

The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble. — Julie Klassen

How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives! — Marty Rubin

Kahneman found that when counting moments of joy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair. — Yuval Noah Harari

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 us who owe them thanks. — Henri Poincare

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is. — Henry Ward Beecher

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. — Mortimer Adler

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley. — Oswald Chambers

Piano is like drudgery. — Warren Zevon

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov

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

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down ... To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? ... Sabbathless Satan! — Charles Lamb

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias

Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. — Sonia Sotomayor

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. — Dave Eggers

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

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. — Richard Wagner

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. — Orison Swett Marden

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God. — Oswald Chambers

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine. — George Herbert

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured. — Luci Swindoll

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. — Max Ehrmann

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God. — Kevin DeYoung

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. — Margaret Deland

Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live — Muriel Rukeyser

In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade, — Margery Allingham

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession. — Paul Halmos

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. — Matthew McConaughey

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations. — John Wooden

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition — Henry Ford