Drudgery Quotes - Page 4

• the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Children, People, Childhood

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• 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.

  Myrtle Reed

  Work, Blindness, Inseparable

  MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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

  Margaret Deland

  Teaching, Genius, Useless

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Acting, Actors, Sheer

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Writing, Joy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

  Ivan Pavlov

  School, Facts, Compare

  Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 27 February (1936)

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

  Luci Swindoll

  Life, Festivals, Happy Things

  Luci Swindoll, The Navigators (1989). “Celebrating Life: Catching the Thieves That Steal Your Joy”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Teaching, Failure, Mean

  "Littlewood's Miscellany".

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

  Kevin DeYoung

  Believe, Holiness, Sanctification

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2015

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Valleys, Height

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.40, Discovery House

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• Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Dream, Style, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 77-78), 1964.

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• 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

  Ideas, Occupation, Succeed

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.282, e-artnow

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

  Richard Branson

  Betrayal, Believe, Spirit

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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

  Walter Mosley

  War, Writing, Cubicles

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• What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

  Peter Viereck

  Air, Oxygen, Stopping

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• We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Women, Effort

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1931, e-artnow

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• The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Moving, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Children, Growing Up

  Source: blankonblank.org

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

  John Kasich

  Hands, Balls, Captains

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• Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Disappointment, Clouds

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• 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.

  Garry Winogrand

  Missing, Looks, Stuff

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ducks, Water

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Organization, Giving

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

  Brett Weston

  Photography, Inspiration, Brutal

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