The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it’s artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.
In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry.
Once you live in New York, you can’t live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It’s so bourgeois. I get so bored.
I’m big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that’s what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
Kids need somewhere to go, so they’re not bored on the street.
For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.
Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I’m wrong.
People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get ‘bored’. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.
At first I didn’t know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.
I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I’m pretty chill compared to back then. When I’m on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.
You don’t want to see me all the time. You get bored.
I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that’s why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it’s something that’s the antithesis of what I am, there’s much more to lose yourself in.
When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
I get bored very easily. I do like excitement.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
I’d be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
I’ve never been bored in my life, man. I’ve never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I’m an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I’ve studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian… How can you get bored?
I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it’s just a little bit wrong.
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don’t have a change, you’re bored. It’s the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of the test and exam system often does just that.
The day the producers aren’t minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
I’d actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he’s kept himself from being bored.
I didn’t start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
I’ve read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don’t hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren’t.
I think, because I didn’t think of myself getting into writing and production since I was younger, I could get bored of it if I don’t continue to pivot.
I would have to say I’m bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I’ve done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn’t interested in showing off any more.
It’s street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don’t get bored and walk away.
I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while – that’s how they learn to be creative.
The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.
Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, ‘hang on a minute, I’m obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.’
But personally, I was bored playing only negative characters.
A lot of people ask me, ‘What is your goal now that you have done everything?’ And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it’s all new to me.
I get bored easily.
I just can’t afford to get bored, because if you’ve been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.
During the middle of sophomore year, my friends and I would get bored at lunch, so we would film videos on my computer webcam of us dancing in the gym to Christmas music.
I want to feel something, as a person. I don’t want to be bored.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they’d get bored in a day. ‘Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here’s Matt researching in aisle six of his local library’. A few hours of that and they’d go home.
I get bored in Hollywood.
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
I feel like you have to constantly evolve because if you’re not changing, the audience gets bored.
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
If I don’t try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.
I get bored doing one thing only. I’ve been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don’t see why I won’t continue on that path.
I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level.
Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you’re dancing, you’re moving your hips. So much fun.
I don’t have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
Here’s what I’ve learned about raising boys… if you keep ’em busy, they’re fine. You let ’em get bored, they’ll dismantle your house board by board.
You can’t do a machine without knowing something about how it’s going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don’t enjoy doing period clothes.
A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here’s the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you’re near.
You have to constantly change and evolve because people get bored. Look at The Undertaker: he’s evolved so many times.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Don’t eat because you’re angry, bored, sad, or stressed.
I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he’d tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.
I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.
There’s a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don’t understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don’t understand boredom.
