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.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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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.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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When you're really young, you're young for life.
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To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
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I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
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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.
