“When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.”

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.