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“I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.”

Needs Used Walking Sitting Delight Miles Evening Boredom Holiday

Book:Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire

Source: Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire

“I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.”

People Seems Able Deals Watches Tvs Speed Passing Passings Boredom Pace Aspire Impatience Pace Of Life

Book:Off to the Side: A Memoir

Source: Off to the Side: A Memoir

“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.”

Three Games Hours Watches Four One Thing Stupid Football Average Boring Boredom Horrific Football Game Colossal American Movie

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.”

Audience Boredom Decoration

Book:The cognitive style of PowerPoint

Source: The cognitive style of PowerPoint

“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”

Way Mind Challenges Skills Training Careful Coaches Boredom Be Careful Repetition Repetitive New Skills

Author:Catherine Cox

“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.”

People Jobs Three Four Loneliness Higher Absence Engaged Boredom Wellbeing Close Friends Close Friendship

Book:Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Source: Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

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

Everyday Boredom Laziness Conquest Battlefields Will Power

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.”

Real Ends Evil Despair Authority Universal Boredom Calamity Precaution

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.”

Enemy Television Boredom Predictability

Author:David Nevins

“Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.”

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.”

Trying Truth Beautiful Imagination Beauty Creativity Discovery Intuition Enthusiasm Bored Boredom Bores You Funny Boredom

Book:Our present discontents

Source: Our present discontents

“Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.”

“Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.”

Attention Reader Lows Tolerance Boredom Grades Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Judith Viorst

“Boredom is a great motivator.”

Boredom

Author:Uma Thurman

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”

Mind Long Enough Seems Mistake Discovery Originals Obvious Boring Boredom

Author:Arthur Koestler

“What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!”

People Country Use Talking Moral Boredom

Book:Ten Plays

Source: Ten Plays

“Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.”

Men Enemy Worst Boredom Discontent Worst Enemy

Author:George W. Buck

“If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.”

Ifs Wells Dies Boredom

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.”

Seems Wish Sleep Attention Personality Election Developing Boredom Sickness Contests Polls Fever

Author:Norman Tebbit

“The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise.”

Way Age Quality Television Disease Surprise Photographer Photograph Invention Magazines Bored Boredom Combat Spoiled Being Spoiled

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug.”

Ifs World Want Years Country White Boredom Canada Ennui Days Of The Year Homogeneity

Author:Greg Proops

“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

Happiness Spiritual Order Easy Sacrifice Bored Boredom Bores Messiah Live Free Being Bored Funny Boredom

Author:Richard Bach

“Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.”

Years Hard Lines Attention Six Planes Boredom Attention Span Six Year Olds

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.”

Writing Book Sometimes Happens Lows Boredom Publishers Threshold

Author:Dean Koontz

“As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Attention Reader Lows Tolerance Pity Bored Boredom Handy Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:John Scalzi

“What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.”

Enough Too Much Boredom

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.”

One Thing Boredom

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.”

Men World Left Modern Mysterious Realms Boredom Modern Man Foreboding

Book:Fire from Within

Source: Fire from Within

“Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.”

Ifs Feelings Practice Difficulty Stuck Boredom

Author:Rodney Yee

“Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.”

Ifs Men Needs Lasts Suffering Hours Plans Tomorrow Boredom Yearning

Author:Seneca the Younger

“We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.”

Believe Reality Lying Sin Interesting Impossible Adventure Devil Empty Strategy Endless Fulfillment Fallen Boredom Emptiness Adam Employed Shrinks Fascination Adam And Eve Reservoirs

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.”

Made Boredom Avarice Drunkards Ennui

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.”

Jobs Life Is Boredom Insecurity

Author:John Lennon

“Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.”

Loses Memories Music Is Innocent Boredom Mediocrity Refuge Sanctuary Losing Yourself Intricacy

Author:Lisa Gerrard

“Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.”

“Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.”

States Weapons Boredom Neutrality

Author:Molly Crabapple

“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.”

“Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.”

Long Helping Return Our Time Boredom Bores Long Life Tedious Trifling

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.”

Thinking Want Boredom Definition Of Insanity

Author:Eric Bachmann

“I have a very low boredom threshold.”

Lows Boredom Threshold

Author:Garth Kravits

“I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."”

Way Left Issues Bigger Physics Boredom Compelled Interrupted

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Boredom has always been a problem.”

Problem Boredom

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom in storytelling is synonymous with big doomy death-shaped death. So: be cruel to your protagonist. Rob him of something. Something important. Something he needs. A weapon. An asset. A piece of knowledge. A loved one. A DELICIOUS PIE. Take it away! Force him to operate without it. Conflict reinvigorates stale stories. New conflict, or old conflict that has evolved and grown teeth.”

Needs Writing Kind Important Character Stories Bigs Force Pieces Conflict Weapons Teeth Storytelling Cruelty Boredom Be Kind Assets Invites Loved Ones Pie Delicious Stale Protagonists

Author:Chuck Wendig

“There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.”

Knows Needs Trying Important Sometimes Done Protect Bored Uncomfortable Boredom Annoyed Protect Yourself

Author:Regina Spektor

“I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.”

Knows Kind Different Kids These Days Boredom Different Kinds

Author:Charlie Brooker

“There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain involved and so you're putting yourself through adversity in that situation. It's never totally pleasurable and there are moments where it's kind of boring or painful and you know that in doing that, you're making your mind and body tougher and more resilient. So must be able to deal with the boredom that happens in life.”

Ifs Knows Mind Kind Moments Body Happens Able Pain Deals Situation Involved Exercise Adversity Everyday Painful Boring Likes Boredom Mind And Body Resilient

Author:Robert Greene

“If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive the boredom because you're connected to something that excites you.”

Ifs Hours Practice Boring Connected Boredom Music Love

Author:Robert Greene

“This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.”

Men Reality Religious Sentences Boredom Misinterpreted

Author:Erich Fromm

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