Tom Hodgkinson

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

British Writer

Joss Whedon

Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.

American Writer

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

Japanese Soldier

Mitch Kapor

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.

American Businessman

Benjamin Bratt

I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.

American Actor

Gilbert K. Chesterton

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

English Writer

Christopher Gadsden

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

American Soldier

Dennis Lehane

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

American Author

Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

American Philosopher

George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Irish Playwright

Often implies a task needs considerable physical strength or endurance.

Physical Effort

Can suggest an emotional challenge, not just physical or intellectual.

Emotional Weight

Suggests tasks may take a lot of time to complete, often tediously.

Time Consuming

Often used for processes with many complex steps requiring attention.

Complex Tasks

Can indicate something that tests mental resilience and focus.

Mental Stamina

Highlighting the need for dedication to achieve the arduous goal.

Requires Commitment

 at the present time who feel keenly disappointed. They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover

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 And so I act in an extroverted way, because at eight in the morning, the students need a little bit of humor, a little bit of engagement to keep them going in arduous days of study. But we need to be very careful when we act protractedly out of character.

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 But meanwhile, a working mother who depends on food stamps to support her family has to complete an arduous, complicated application which she might not even be able to do online. And the inability of her to do that same work from her couch means

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 to overcome problems that most people aren't faced with. One of the first lessons that I learned immediately followed the painful and arduous task of learning how to walk again, but it went on to pay dividends for the rest of my life.

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 The trip was an arduous climb that took all day. But he was glad for the solitude it afforded him, and the peace he felt upon returning home was profound. The scholar was determined to maintain this clarity for as long as possible,

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 And when you're training for this sport, you are not smiling. It's an arduous, difficult sport, and I don't remember smiling at any time during this sport. As I said, I respect other sports, and I compare this sport sometimes

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 determined and visionary in its commitment to peace. Leaders need to connect to each other and to their followers, and they need to bring them along on what is an often arduous journey into a peaceful future.

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 When at last they reach the sea, their journey that, so far, has been merely arduous becomes very dangerous indeed.

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 hope for the possessed in the holy waters of the Ganges a man and his helpers prepare for an arduous task

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Arduous

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