Hanne Blank Quotes
Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I’m working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are relaxing and, dare I say it, even useful.
Hanne Blank
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
William Hazlitt
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
William Shakespeare
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld
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
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Carlo D'Este
I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
K. Flay
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd have more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I’m working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are relaxing and, dare I say it, even useful.
Hanne Blank
