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- Nov 07, 2020
Boring Quotes
On avoiding boredom, embracing quirks, and boring routines that work.
Several quotes push back against the fear of being boring, preferring to keep challenging themselves rather than settle into one comfortable niche. See also Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It's old news, and literature is supposed to bring new news, and for me, I feel I have to go as far out as I can to try and tell the kind of stories I want to tell.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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- Nov 07, 2020