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• I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

  Luke Evans

  Running, Crazy, Cardio

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Bored, Sometimes

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• What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

  Chris Messina

  Waiting Around, Bridges, Car

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• To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

  Criss Jami

  Princess, Fighting, Live Laugh Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tired, Complaining, Sake

  Paul Brody, Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work”, p.118, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

  William Morris Hunt

  Color, Simplicity, Trying

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• No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

  Robert Brustein

  Perception, Ongoing, Enlightened

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• Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.458

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• There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fancy, Phrases, Virtue

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.

  John Ruskin

  Taken, Trying, Matter

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.299

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• The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Art, Truth

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• I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

  Marilyn Manson

  Running, Suicidal, Different

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

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• The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Purpose, Boring, Form

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• Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

  Imre Lakatos

  Numbers, Criticism, Doe

  Imre Lakatos (1976). “Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Source: feathertale.com

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• I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

  Tracy Caulkins

  Thinking, People, Swim

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• Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The dramas we encounter are part and parcel of being human. If we experienced no change or drama in our lives, if nothing unexpected ever happened, we would merely be like automatons, our lives unbearably monotonous and dull. Therefore, please develop a strong self so that you can enact the drama of your life with confidence and poise in the face of whatever vicissitudes you may encounter.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Drama, Self

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• I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Night, Men

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• Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Sick, Joy

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Mother, Children, Pride

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• Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Sometimes, Deserted

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• The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Monotonous Life, Live For Others, Way

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• London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Confusion, House, Design

  Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”

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• You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Ends, Painter

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 176, 1975.

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

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