123 quotes found
“If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.”
“Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.”
“Somebody's boring me I think it's me.”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
“Being bored is an insult to oneself.”
“The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find ...”
“When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.”
“When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
“Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.”
“Boredom is a sickness of the soul.”
“Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.”
“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
“In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come h...”
“As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.”
“If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try it for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.”
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.”
“The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.”
“Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
“Man is the only animal that can be bored.”
