One cannot simply perceive everything, to be able to…

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…

— Seneca the Younger

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with…

— Isabella Rossellini

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat…

— Albert Brooks

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even…

— Taiichi Ohno

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

— Seneca the Younger

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

— Uta Hagen

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be…

— Ernie J Zelinski

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem…

— Bill Vaughan

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in…

— Kathy Griffin

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

— Hugh Mackay

“Its protagonists were lonely and Williams explores their past and present lives in the kind of tedious detail that could only appeal to retards…

— Stewart Home

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

— Chris Tarrant

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

— Rasmus Lerdorf