Bored Quotes - Page 39

• If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Attitude, Students

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

  Hans Zimmer

  Challenges, Way, Okay

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Reason

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• We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People

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• The intelligent man is never bored.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligent Man

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• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

  Jess Walter

  Teaching, Humble, Opportunity

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• If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Games, Hide And Seek, Ifs

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• I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Trying, New Things

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• How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

  John Updike

  Planets, So Bored

  John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”

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• The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.

  Jan Morris

  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

  Jan Morris (2009). “Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere”, p.14, Da Capo Press

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• There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!

  Buck Henry

  Mean, People, Imagination

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• What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

  Billy Graham

  Christian, World, Demand

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

  Dave Barry

  Teenager, Rain, Sarcasm

  "Whining Down The Country's Roads With Dave Barry And Family". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. September 1, 1991.

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• To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It's something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.

  Taron Egerton

  Personality, Trying, Pressure

  "'Kingsman' Star Talks Movie's Success, Possible Sequel & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. June 9, 2015.

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• Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.

  Kirk Windstein

  Problem, Busy, Used

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• I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.

  Kirk Windstein

  Fun, Drunk, Causes

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• I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

  Arca

  Long, People, Trying

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  Steve Jobs

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Home, Connections, Want

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.26, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Thinking, Interesting, Fundamentals

  "Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies" by Eric Pace, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 1988.

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Shrines, Sentimental, Worship

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• I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

  John C. McGinley

  Blessed, Imagination, Actors

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• To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Missing, Purpose

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• You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

  Harvey Mackay

  Scared, Better Off, Being Scared

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jul 05, 2011

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• If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

  Ethel Waters

  Lonely, Fun, Littles

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