Monotonous Tasks Quotes

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

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.

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

Work is making a living out of being bored.