Bored Quotes - Page 14

It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

When I know too much I get bored too fast.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

I have a fear of being boring.

I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.