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“Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.”

Technology Successful Brother Normal Flying Selling Enjoyed Relief Hobbies Exploring Caves Bicycle Diving Monotony Scuba Repairing Scuba Diving Wright Brothers Jacques Cousteau

Book:Imagined World

Source: Imagined World

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.”

Source: Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

“I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.”

Humans Wells Heart Sex Sleep Hunger Convinced Boredom Purity Protected Sheer Human Heart Casual Virginity Sanctity Constancy Monotony Dullness Forfeit Passion And Purity Sleeping Around

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”

“On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.”

Men School Young Science Choices Literature Loses Duty Accounts Young Man Branches Graduates Irrelevant Assignments Monotony Tedium Studious Irrelevance

Author:Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.”

Men Art Artist Inspiring Poet Weary Monotonous Monotony Creating Art

Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.”

Art Care Study Conditions Design Extraordinary Curious Unfinished Monotony

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.”

Long Art Ideas Action Wanted Artist Passion Creativity Painting Expression Cost Long Time Drawing Irresistible Freedom Of Expression Monotony Painting And Drawing

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.”

Ifs Men Stills Country Able Lost Sound Cities Wall Summer Sight Winter Smell Gray Spells Midnight Variation Noon Nuance Cement Monotony Pavement Odor Windy

Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.”

Deals Behinds Fate Series Blow Crush Expecting Depressing Womb Tombs Stalking Monotony Least Expecting

Book:The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary

Source: The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary

“It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them”

May Tired Orthodoxy Daisies Monotony Mystery Of God

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?”

Known Knowledge Sweet Novelty Monotony

Author:George Eliot

“It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.”

British Monotony Isle

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.”

Reality Distance Scary Dull Highways Loathe Monotony Interstate

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.”

Ifs Long Next Exercise One Day Paper Sitting Bounds Disappear Passing Passings Collapse Papers Long Life Novelty Monotony Cubicles

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

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