#drudge

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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

— Logan P. Smith

#involves #love #test #vocation

Piano is like drudgery. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#like #piano

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it. ↗

— Chuck Todd

#crime #days #deciding #drudge #journalism

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

— Walter Mosley

#drudgery #escape #every #every day #i

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#genius #man #put #school #sentence

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#mere #opera #world

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

— Margaret Fuller

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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. ↗

— Tanith Lee

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