Boring Quotes - Page 19

• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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• People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

  Richard Saul Wurman

  People, Firsts, Never Forget

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• Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

  Celia Green

  Simple, People, Secret

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1981). “Advice to clever children”

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• What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?

  Marita Bonner

  Work, Needs, Use

  Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

  Joel Stein

  Clouds, Luxury Hotels, Blue

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• Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.

  Hugh Jackman

  Fun, Term, Ifs

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• Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Looks, Paint

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• A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Cutting, Self, Games

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• The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Mistake, Opportunity

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• One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Sex, Team

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• Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

  Bo Lozoff

  Life, Depressing, Scary

  Bo Lozoff (2015). “We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

  Wavy Gravy

  Art, Fun, Mistake

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• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Waiting Rooms

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• He's gonna try and stand back, mess me about a bit, be cagey and hold on the inside and make it one of them fights that are boring. I don't wanna make a boring fight. I don't like to be involved in boring fights!

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighting, Trying

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• I believe that he's a boring fighter.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, Believe, Fighter

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• The boring side of business is what makes it work.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, Sides

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• If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, People

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• I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, California

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• God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.

  Joyce Meyer

  Trying, Shy, Want

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• Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fun, Motivation, People

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• I'm boring but effective.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighter

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• Nobody can beat the Klitschko brothers. That's why it's boring.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Brother, Motivation, Fighter

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• There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

  Paris Hilton

  Book, Reading, Sin

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.

  Donella Meadows

  Mistake, Thinking, Ecosystems

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• He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

  Louise Erdrich

  Regret, Body, Spirit

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