Boredom Quotes - Page 17

• He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts himself last and helps the common good. So he could easily slip into a world of boredom, The blessing and curse of Captain America is that he doesn't have that fancy an ability. He doesn't live in another world, or turn green. He doesn't have bells and whistles, he doesn't shoot missiles. He punches and kicks.

  Chris Evans

  Struggle, Character, Blessing

  "Chris Evans Taking a Break from Acting Once Marvel Contract Expires" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Motivation

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• I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Effort, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.255, Harvard University Press

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• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Sleep, Eggs

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Two, Evil

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Learning, Years

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• We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Vanity, Vain

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• The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Together, Reason Why

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• Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Want, Infinity

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• Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

  Abraham Myerson

  Life, Block, Believe

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• Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

  Amy Johnson

  Eye, Simplicity, Confusing

  Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

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• The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Fire

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Cancer, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, August 24, 2004.

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• I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

  Jackie Collins

  Long, Doe, Lows

  "Jackie Collins's Travelling Life". Interview with Ruth Huntman, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 10, 2015.

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• You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

  Lord Hailsham

  Boring, Ashamed, Ought

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Drinking, Odds, Inability

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• True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Everyday, Laziness, Will Power

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• People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

  Tom Rath

  Jobs, Loneliness, People

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?

  Katha Pollitt

  Prayer, Hate, School

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Causes, Neglect

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• The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

  Anais Nin

  Way

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• Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Causes, Results, Promiscuity

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.26, BookBaby

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• Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently

  Catherine Cox

  Skills, Challenges, Training

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• Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

  Edward Tufte

  Audience, Decoration

  Edward R. Tufte (2003). “The cognitive style of PowerPoint”, Graphics Pr

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• One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Football, Stupid, Average

  "Playboy Interview 1994". Interview with Margy Rochlin, wiki.tarantino.info. 1994.

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