Boredom Quotes - Page 35

• 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!

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, Talking, People

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “Ten Plays”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

  George W. Buck

  Men, Worst Enemy, Discontent

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Wells, Dies, Ifs

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• 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.

  Norman Tebbit

  Sleep, Personality, Wish

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• Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

  Doug Stanhope

  Cancer, Drug, Disease

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• 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.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Age, Quality, Magazines

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• I have a very low boredom threshold.

  Garth Kravits

  Lows, Threshold

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• 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."

  Vandana Shiva

  Issues, Way, Physics

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Boredom has always been a problem.

  Edmund Hillary

  Problem

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.

  Harold J. Seymour

  Volunteer, Usual, Trouble

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• 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.

  Chuck Wendig

  Character, Writing, Pie

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• Boredom is a horrible thing.

  Robert Plant

  Horrible, Horrible Things

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

  Robert Plant

  Negative, Destruction

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Creativity, Our World, Facts

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Leaving, Facts

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

  C.E. Morgan

  Struggle, Ambition, Ego

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I know Stephen King is uncompromising on the idea that writers should practise their craft every single day, and it clearly works for him. Personally, I relish a day off with some boredom; it gives me space to feel the world, observe, stir up the epiphanies, which I need if I'm creating fiction. On the other hand, I'm a big advocate for beauty and creativity on the weekend, which can be incredibly rejuvenating.

  Katrina Onstad

  Creativity, Weekend, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I rarely deal with boredom these days. I used to spend a lot of time saying I was bored until I realized there is always something I could be doing. Whenever I have free time, I love using that time to improve myself in different ways. If you think about it, there are tons of things we still don't know much about.

  Bethany Mota

  Thinking, Different, I Realized

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

  Martha Stout

  Dying, Kind, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain.

  Martha Stout

  Children, Pain, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of us fill up our lives and end our boredom with our involvement with other people - people we love, people we hate, people we're afraid of, people we're interested in - and that's what keeps our minds going. So if you're sociopathic and you really have no caring for anybody, there's not much left, only boredom, and the way to relieve that, apparently, is to play a game and make sure that you win.

  Martha Stout

  Hate, Caring, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Another thing that's fun for sociopath is speed, literal speed, going very fast in your car. Not that everybody who goes fast in their car is a sociopath, by any means, but anything that gives you a rush will lessen your sense of boredom.

  Martha Stout

  Fun, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.

  Julian Young

  Real, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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