Accustomed Quote by Graeme Simsion Download Open image “Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.” — Graeme Simsion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accustomed Am Amusement Creating Creativity Fortunately I am Inadvertently
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“My questionnaire would be ruthless in filtering out women who were concerned with appearance.” — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“I decided that ten positions would be sufficient initially. More could be learned if the initial encounter was successful. It did not take long—less… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“Fault! Asperger’s isn’t a fault. It’s a variant. It’s potentially a major advantage. Asperger’s syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“When I returned, wearing an uncomfortably large white shirt, with a decorative frill in the front, I tried to introduce the Wife Project, but… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“I need a minute to think,” she said. I automatically started the timer on my watch. Suddenly Rosie started laughing. I looked at her,… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“I would normally have scheduled my driving time according to published studies on fatigue and booked accommodation accordingly. But I had been too busy… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“used the precise speed indication on the GPS to set the cruise control to the exact speed limit, rather than relying on the artificially… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to the Museum… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“Asperger's isn't a fault. It's a variant. It's potentially a major advantage.” — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
