Boring Quotes - Page 17

• Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Running, Passion, Mean

  "Marry Him!" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. March 2008.

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• I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

  Joe Posnanski

  Baseball, People, Arguing

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• You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

  Bob Black

  Stupid, Television, Chance

  "The Abolition of Work". Essay by Bob Black, www.primitivism.com. 1985.

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• Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him.

  Mike Sekowsky

  Dull

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• This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

  Michael Deaver

  Pundits, Media Training, Saying The Same Thing Over And Over

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• The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  E. V. Lucas

  Life, Art, Loss

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• There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.

  Jo Boaler

  Education, Teacher, Math

  Jo Boaler (2015). “What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success”, p.5, Penguin

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• Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.

  Andrea diSessa

  Learning, Black And White, Intelligent

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• There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

  Pal Benko

  Play, Psychology, Trying

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• Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

  Robert Harris

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

  Jessie J

  Perfect, Imperfection

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• Have you ever stopped to think what fun this business of living can be? If you haven't, and if you are one of those who insist upon believing that life is humdrum, grim and boring, then I'm afraid this department is not for you. For I don't believe any such thing. I know that we can all free ourselves and live our lives fully, zestfully and joyfully!

  Dorothy Draper

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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• If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

  Joe Perry

  Bored, Trying, Albums

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• Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

  Steven Moffat

  Cinema, Television

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• Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

  Eddie Irvine

  Fishing, Big Fish, Stories

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• Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world's diet- be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when you turn off the radio and the TV and eliminate unnecessary activities. Then begin feeding on the Word of God. At first, it may seem bland and boring; but in time, you will discover that it satisfies in a far deeper, richer way than those things you once thought were so filling.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Trying, May, Want

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.130, Moody Publishers

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• Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Doe, Matter

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• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Girl, Struggle

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• There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silly, Mean, Angel

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Tennis, Next, Etc

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• It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

  Prue Leith

  Entrepreneur, Sound, Easy

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• Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

  Rajneesh

  Philosophy, Past, Years

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• Men are stupid. That much I know for sure. They say stupid things. They do stupid things. They hurt you for stupid reasons. But we love them all the same. My fiancee can be as stupid as can be at times, but then again so can I. We all can. Lets face it, life and love would be boring if we were all straight laced and smart.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hurt, Life And Love, Smart

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• It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Children, Destiny

  "Helen Mirren confronts the final female taboo" By Sarah Rainey, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

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• Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  Lebbeus Woods

  Hate, Thinking, People

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