Drudgery Quotations

Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.

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.

We're going to be talking about trade, from baskets and beads to beaver. We've got a section on women's work. Lewis and Clark thought native American women lived a life of drudgery and doom when that is not the case.

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

Why does a human body become deceased? The reason is that as long as the human body is not free from suffering, mind cannot be happy. If a man lacks enthusiasm, either his body or mind is in a deceased condition.... Now what saps the enthusiasm in man? If there is no enthusiasm, life becomes drudgery - a mere burden to be dragged. Nothing can be achieved if there is no enthusiasm. The main reason for this lack of enthusiasm on the part of a man is that an individual looses the hope of getting an opportunity to elevate himself. Hopelessness leads to lack of enthusiasm. The mind in such cases becomes deceased.... When is enthusiasm created? When one breaths an atmosphere where one is sure of getting the legitimate reward for one's labor, only then one feels enriched by enthusiasm and inspiration.

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill

There is drudgery and days when you think 'I can't stand another minute of this' but if you have a passion for explaining potentially complex information to people who need that information, there is definitely a sense of satisfaction at the end of the process,

Computers have taken so much drudgery out of it. Just one to mention, painting the picture. It used to be that everything was wet, everything was with a brush. Everything was wiggle it in water, wipe out your brush, get a new jar of paint, spill the paint, mop it up.

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine

There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunneling into a bank, or being President of the United States.

It's just a job you look forward to going to. It's not a drudgery job. You see your friends.

If the whites are to continue for some time in doing drudgery to the exclusion of, Negroes, the latter must find another way out.

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

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

Piano is like drudgery.

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction

The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

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, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.