Dread Work Quotes

#1. Not hardly." Reese lowered his pistol, letting the dread work through him in a tremble. "That was
just a battle cry.

Willowy Whisper

#2. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable.

Daniel Keyes

#3. Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to stay in the groove. When you get out of the groove, you start to dread the work, because you know it's going to suck for a while - it's going to suck until you get back into the flow.

Austin Kleon

#4. Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Beatrice Webb

#5. The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

Isabella Thoburn

#6. There's only one way to satisfy a ghoul's hunger.

Sui Ishida

#7. In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. A redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared it's nocturnal mysteries.

Julien Gracq

#9. To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#10. With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

Calvin Miller

#11. I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?

Tom Hanks

#12. I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.

Nina Dobrev

#13. Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Therese De Lisieux

#14. Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Meryl Streep

#15. What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

Lynda Obst

#16. The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I don't think of marriage as the drudge work that a lot of sitcoms and movies might have shown it to be, I think it's more deadly murderous rage, unadulterated passion, soul-crushing purgatorial dread ... It's more interesting.

Rob Delaney

#18. Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

John Dewey

#19. When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.

Karen Larson-Reuter

#20. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death - We die whene'er we think of it!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#21. I think 'On The Air' was a little too bizarre for TV.

Miguel Ferrer

#22. Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

William Goldman

#23. It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

Phyllis Logan

#24. The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread.

Jessica Fortunato

#25. Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Joan Didion

#26. For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!

Joyce Carol Oates

#27. I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Vincent Cassel

#28. Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone!

Kemi Sogunle

#29. How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Luke Scott

#30. The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.

Steven Pressfield