#drudgery

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. ↗

— Simon Raven

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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! ↗

— Don Bluth

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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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Piano is like drudgery. ↗

— Warren Zevon

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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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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. ↗

— Ted Allen

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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

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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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