Top 151 Drudgery Quotes & Sayings

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

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

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

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

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

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

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

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

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.

Piano is like drudgery.

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

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

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.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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.

It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

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

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

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

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

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

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

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

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

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

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

Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.

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

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

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

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

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

The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

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

I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.

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.

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

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.

To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.

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

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

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!

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

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 friends than to be together to create something.

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

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.