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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
Success
Perseverance
Pay
Price
Drudgery
Child
Cannot
Success Is
Bribed
Yours
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man
Genius
School
Put
True
Drudgery
True Genius
Sentence
Treadmill
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage
Good
Knowledge
Genius
Valuable
Country
Allow
Never
Drudgery
Like
Employed
Instruction
Policy
Surely
Than
Far
Elementary
Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.
Corita Kent
Food
Great
People
Shopping
Become
Out
Inspiration
Drudgery
Like
Became
Revelation
Coming
Groceries
Ceremony
Whole
I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.
Dave Gibbons
Technology
Way
Out
Enthusiastic
About
Takes
Drudgery
Attraction
Known
Lot
Very
Being
Process
Using
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
Kailash Satyarthi
Time
Daily
Age
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
About
Factories
Lifetime
Drudgery
Contemporaries
Hours
Most
Schooling
Children
Fields
Working
Full
Full-Time
Start
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
Lara St. John
Life
Music
Me
Old
Everything
Scales
Out
More
Never
Had
Remembering
Since
Drudgery
Mostly
Without
Always
Were
Been
Years
Wanted
Naturally
Grownups
Ear
Playing
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Love
Vocation
Drudgery
Involves
Test
Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.
Mike Rowe
Work
Drudgery
Very
Than
Different
Meaningful
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
Mike Rowe
Work
Humor
Few
Way
Jobs
Dirty
Instead
Highlight
Highlights
Drudgery
Makes
Different
Shows
Thing
Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
Paul Greengard
Work
You
Science
Films
Something
Glamour
Exciting
Along
Drudgery
Periods
Discover
Lot
Wonderfully
Portrayed
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
Love
Time
You
Solitude
Writing
Discipline
Drudgery
Most
Order
Endure
To Love
Sweat
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
Alone
Me
Nothing
Books
Hundreds
Would
One Thing
Boring
Scholarship
Soon
Induce
Drudgery
Make
Read
Another
Concluded
Very
Notes
Thing
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.
Sonia Sotomayor
You
Justice
Sometimes
Job
Every
Say
Boring
Drudgery
Supposed
Know
Gets
Going
I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.
Stephen Malkmus
Art
Good
Looking
Minimal
Table
Kitchen
Stuff
Drudgery
Mess
Am
Getting
Just
Just Looking
Keeping
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
Work
Feeling
Wish
Hated
Feared
Drudgery
Normal
Escape
Submitted
Much
Should
Manuscripts
Published
Publishers
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
Family
Me
Together
Better
Think
Entirely
Something
Kitchen
Adventure
Drudgery
Friends
Than
Family And Friends
Anything
Place
Create
Fun
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
Me
Kitchen
Sharing
Adventure
New
Drudgery
Ideas
Most
House
New Ideas
Discovery
Off
Friends
Trying
Place
Room
Special
Showing
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Walter Mosley
War
Day
Every Day
Writing
Every
Took
Kind
Drudgery
Up
Escape
Piano is like drudgery.
Warren Zevon
Piano
Drudgery
Like
As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women.
Max Boot
Me
Women
Nothing
Say
Atone
Segregation
Drudgery
Household
Felt
Sins
Discrimination
Expect
Soviet
Soviet Union
Refugee
Union
Workplace
Ridiculous
Suffered
Slavery
Jewish
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
Ursula Burns
Work
Wait
Old
Back
Siege
Could
Days
Drudgery
Most
Xerox
Nonsense
Office
Get
Notion
Even
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