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Tag Name "Bored" (702)

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Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
Valerie Wilson Wesley
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
Susan Ertz
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Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
Erich Fromm
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Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it on the contrary, throw it wide open.
Joseph Brodsky
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Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
Mason Cooley
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Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
Margaret George
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Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.
Greg Behrendt
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Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
Lisa Unger
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
Walker Percy
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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
Hugh Prather
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: Shoot, get back over there! It made me appreciate acting more.
Tina Fey
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A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.
Stephanie Mills
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Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane experiences which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.
Tom Hodgkinson
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.
Stephen Batchelor
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
Toni Morrison
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I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.
Stephen Daldry
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If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.
Tony Robbins
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The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.
Steve Berlin
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You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.
Tony Robbins
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My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.
Steve Jobs
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