Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Instructive Tedious quotations
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation.
You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth.
I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.
If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.
Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons.
It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.
Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
The villain is usually the most interesting part.
But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.
The Path of Love is not a tedious Path.
It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
I'm always excited to be around other actors.
I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.
Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you.
If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse.
Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence.