“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.” InspirationalAgeSufferingWealthDealsRichLonelinessEmotionalBuddhismDiseaseOld AgeBoredomFrustrationTemporaryDistractionLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneImmuneDisease And Death Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.” ThinkingWayHeartIdeasTurnsSimpleCreativeHeardDyingActivityDiseaseMereDefinitionsAbsenceImprovementBest WayCuresBoredKicksBoredomAccurateWithin YouJuiceTurn-onBetter WaysJarsCreative IdeasFormalityCreative Juices Author:Bob Proctor
“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.” WayAgeQualityTelevisionDiseaseSurprisePhotographerPhotographInventionMagazinesBoredBoredomCombatSpoiledBeing Spoiled Author:Alexey Brodovitch
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.” LiteratureVirtueStageMoralityDiseasePrimariesBoredomSyphilis Author:Karl Kraus
“In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.” WantHumansHandsWantedHuman BeingsCenturyDiseaseSavedEducatedBoredomAmused Book:Timeline Source: Timeline
“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.” MenHardDiesHard WorkConflictDiseasePsychologicalBoredom Book:Blood, Brains and Beer Source: Blood, Brains and Beer