Bored Quote by Emily Oster Download Open image “In short, humans are programmed to get bored.” — Emily Oster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bored Get Humans Nature of man Programmed Short
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. — eric hoffer Copy Share Image
Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity -… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“So why did my conclusions differ from theirs? At least two reasons. One is overinterpretation of flawed studies. But the bigger thing, I think,… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I am extremely devoted to Amazon Prime - which offers speedier free deliveries, free movie streaming and other benefits for an annual fee -… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making blankets now,… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image