#bored

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly. ↗

— Rihanna

#bored #doing #familiar #get #going

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. ↗

— Tim Roth

#believe #bored #brother #could #father

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. ↗

— Rumi

#cup #disappear #fills #front #hurt

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#aspect #big #big deal #bored #deal

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. ↗

— John Green

#bored #broadly #friends #get #lot

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#boredom #human #human happiness #pain #two

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#anger

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy. ↗

— Margaret George

#music

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward. ↗

— Susan Cain

#inner-life #introversion #loneliness #strengths #life

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly? ↗

— Hugh Prather

#chances #change #discontent #freedom #change