Quotes About Engagement

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience and each must give something.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done, not merely something believed, or known or experienced.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.