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• You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

  Andy Warhol

  Bores You, Boredom, Needs

  "Andy Warhol's party book".

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• There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

  Ally Carter

  Revenge, Drawing, Greed

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• If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Hands, Two

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored.

  Rick Reynolds

  Atheist, Thinking, Years

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• If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

  Keith Green

  Reading, Heart, Godly

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• I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Ambition, Opportunity

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• The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, War, Tired

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• Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

  Stephen Hawking

  Physics, Boring, Mathematics

  "Stephen Hawking: A Biography". Book by Kristine Larsen, 2005.

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• We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.

  Henry Kravis

  Opportunity, Oil, Cable Tv

  "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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• I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

  Clive Palmer

  Retired

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• I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

  Howard Stern

  Funny, Boring, Profanity

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• Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Interesting, Boring

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• If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Laughter, Boredom

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

  Robert McKee

  Boredom, Suffering, Desire

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• She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Couple, Opportunity, Views

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.354, Macmillan

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• Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

  Stephen King

  Als, Persona

  Stephen King (1999). “Un saco de huesos”

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• Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive - she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated falling in love with Ken for lack of anything better to do.

  Francine Pascal

  Falling In Love, Numbers, Long Ago

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• You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

  Francine Pascal

  Art, Lectures, Want

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• Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

  Lars Svendsen

  Animal

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.32, Reaktion Books

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• Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

  B. F. Skinner

  Boredom, Despair, Battle

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.79, Hackett Publishing

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• The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

  Jean Lorrain

  Real, Men, Law

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• The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

  Peter Kreeft

  Stuff, Poverty, Rich

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• Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

  Lars Svendsen

  Profound, Boredom, Anthropomorphism

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.88, Reaktion Books

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