Dull Quotes - Page 29

• At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Age, Might, Hearing

  Donald O. Clifton, Al Winseman, Curt Liesveld (2004). “Living Your Strengths”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

  William Bolitho

  Sorry, Poetry, Rich

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• A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!

  Marilyn Meberg

  Pain, Attitude, Laughter

  Marilyn Meberg (2001). “The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

  Herodotus

  Business, Fall, Men

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• The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

  David Lilienthal

  Men, Ideas, Boots

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• Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Would Be, Patterns, Lifetime

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• Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Night, Giving

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Actors, Disgrace

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 40

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• To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

  John Milton

  Night, Sky, Singing

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.139, Pearson Education

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• Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

  David Ogilvy

  Discipline, Three, Development

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

  Norman Mailer

  Courage, Firsts, Talent

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.106, Random House

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• O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Years, Land, Giving

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• My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set.

  Angelina Jolie

  Stars, Roles, Ambassadors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

  Robert Henri

  Procrastination, Suggestions, Messages

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Glasses, Color

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• I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

  Emily Carr

  Morning, Failure, Mountain

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• A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Boredom, Anxiety, Typical

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• Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

  Daniel Goleman

  Passion, Cutting, Richness Of Life

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.101, Bantam

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• An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

  Nelson Goodman

  Lying, Effort, Answers

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Needs, Sincerity

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• The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Demand, Painting

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• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

  James W. Loewen

  Eye, Fishing, Adoption

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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• Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Differences, Treasure

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• I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Couple, Book

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• You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Tired, Bored, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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