Victor Hugo Quotes
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
Wendy Carlos
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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
William Blake
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
William Gurnall
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Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
N. Katherine Hayles
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Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked
beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would
vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know.
Rumi
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The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?
Alexandre Dumas
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Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
