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“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

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Author:Rollo May

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

Anxiety Flow Backgrounds Intense Boredom Dull Flash Typical

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.”

Men Conditions Anxiety Boredom Ennui Inconstancy

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.”

Causes Anxiety Property Boredom Wondrous Papa

Book:Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

Source: Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

“Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?”

Doe Moments School Hours Anxiety Endless Boredom Recalls Dreary High Anxiety

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“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.”

“I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.”

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Author:Simon Critchley

“Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth: uppers and downers as they were. I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them lose themselves when they require escape from the pressures and anxieties of life in a complex society.”

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Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”

Persons Challenges Anxiety Capacity Positivity Boundaries Enjoyment Boredom Balanced

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.”

People Fall Can Do Results Source Anxiety Flow Essence Bored Boredom Glorious Frustration Capability Workplace Exceed Mismatch

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.”

“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman