#drudgery

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

— Richard Wagner

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I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

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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

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Piano is like drudgery. ↗

— Warren Zevon

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

— Walter Mosley

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Orison Swett Marden

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