Bored Quotes - Page 39

• The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

  Maureen Dowd

  Political, Insane, Celebrate

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• Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.

  O. J. Simpson

  Lonely, Kids, Wife

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• I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Work, Reality

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• If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Business

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.117, Penguin

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• No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

  G. H. Hardy

  Boring, Should, Disgusted

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• When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

  Gish Jen

  Thinking, Boredom, Would Be

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• I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing yourself to a certain extreme. I get bored quite easily so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

  Douglas Booth

  Challenges, Mind, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Would Be, Way, Rework

  Source: www.gq.com

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• [Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Writing, Choices, Albums

  "Enrique Iglesias: “I’m Not a Heartthrob!”". Us Weekly Interview, www.usmagazine.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.

  Liana Liberato

  Challenges, Scare, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

  Liana Liberato

  Different, Want, Pretending

  Source: collider.com

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• Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.

  Jon Fitch

  Hero, Guy, Fans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Long, Marathon

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

  Barbara Johnson

  Life Is Too Short, Dull, Angry

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.43, Zondervan

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• The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Thinking, Boredom

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• When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom, Trying, Listen To Me

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• Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

  Mason Cooley

  Jealousy, Safety, Lovers

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• To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Unhappy Childhood, Monsters

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• I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

  Henry Adams

  Tired, Boredom, Endurance

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Egotism, Bores

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• After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.

  B. C. Forbes

  Hard Work, Men, Vacation

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Trying, Information

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

  Robert Payne

  Long, Empires

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Attention, Pay Attention, Ifs

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• Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.

  Crystal Eastman

  Home, Men, Two

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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