716 Quotes About Boredom

  • Author Walter Kirn
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    Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

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  • Author Duc Levis
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    Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

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  • Author Karl Lagerfeld
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    Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

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  • Author Robert Lopez
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    The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

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  • Author Dwight L. Moody
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    True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

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  • Author John Milton
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    The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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