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.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Tired
  • Boredom

• My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Journey
  • Horrible
  • Boredom

• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Causes

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Enemies

• Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Blessing
  • Boredom
  • Philanthropic

• 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
  • Painting
  • Knows
  • Tired

• Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Boredom
  • Many People

• Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
  • Speech
  • Boredom

• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

  

  William Weld
  • Blessing
  • Boredom
  • Desperate

• 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
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Boredom
  • Torment
  • Law Of Life

• Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Boredom
  • Human Life
  • Poles

• Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Sense
  • Boredom
  • Faculties

• Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Flying
  • Terror
  • Boredom

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Vanity
  • Boredom
  • True Love

• 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.

  

  African Spir
  • Boredom
  • Emptiness
  • Occupations

• What people will do to get away from boredom!

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Boredom

• 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
  • Reality
  • Holy
  • Boredom

• Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Ambition
  • Ugly
  • Kicking

• 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
  • Children
  • Death
  • Sex

• 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
  • Confidence
  • Doubt
  • Voice

• 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
  • Boredom