Daily Drudgery Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Mama only snorted. A terse, ironic half laugh, the kind of angry chortle that powered Mama through her daily drudgery, as if it were the exhaust from an internal engine that runs on pure sass.

Stefan Merrill Block

#3. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

Chogyam Trungpa

#4. For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

Mary Caroline Richards

#5. MARKET? WHAT MARKET! We do not look at market needs. We make proposals to people.

Roberto Verganti

#6. Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Kathleen Norris

#7. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

John Steinbeck

#8. All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

Theodore Parker

#9. As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Speak to the dead. Ask them what they miss most about living.

Marty Rubin

#13. I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

Karen Gillan

#14. The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

Patrick Star

#15. Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.

Billy Graham

#16. I'll shoot you." "At your bluidy leisure." MacRieve's beast was already stirring. "Let's do this -

Kresley Cole

#17. A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

W. H. Auden

#18. I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.

Tiffani Thiessen

#19. You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a
medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you
allow it to be.

Charleszetta Waddles

#20. Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#21. 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

#22. Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus