A Quote by George Leonard

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

George Leonard

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Boredom Essence Found Novelty Obsessive Search

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George Leonard
American - Writer
August 9, 1923 - January 6, 2010

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

George Leonard

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

Arthur C. Clarke

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

Thomas Hood

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

Thomas Hood

Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change.

David Amerland

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Susan Sontag

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Guy de Maupassant

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Vincent of Lerins

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

Etgar Keret

Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being the novelty, this move is also very strong. It is most probably that Radjabov found this natural improvement over the board, as he spend more than an hour, if I am not mistaken. But it could be that he was just trying to remember his own analysis (can you imagine how much he has to remember??).

Mihail Marin

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

Kabir

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.