Boredom Quote by George Leonard Download Open image “The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.” — George Leonard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Essence Found Novelty Obsessive
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing...… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.” — George Leonard Copy Share Image
At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique,… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh… — George Leonard 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
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb 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 don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
