#drudgery

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

— Logan P. Smith

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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

#genius #man #put #school #sentence

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#work #worship #business

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. ↗

— Ted Allen

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For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas. ↗

— 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

#drudgery #endure #love #most #order

Piano is like drudgery. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#like #piano

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

— Walter Mosley

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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

#drudgery #earth #harrowing #mind #necessary

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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