Lack of Engagement Quotes

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.