More than anything else, I realized, it had to be boring to be crazy, to think the same sequence of thoughts and come up with the same set of bizarre conclusions, to voice those conclusions using the same words, several times an hour, day in and day out.
At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
Because businesses need to do boring and un-sexy stuff to stay in business: print invoices, create orders, cut checks, pay people, track time.
But this is less painful than wasting the time of people you are speaking to because you were boring or hard to follow.
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Del Toro said that it would be boring to make a slavish adaptation.
It was just getting boring to hear the same criticism again and again.
"It would be boring to just ski down the slope, " says Verneri Hannula.
That's the thing, Cable: You were boring to a fault, but you worked the way you were supposed to most of the time.
Maybe that's just because we're used to boring old textbooks, though.
"It's gonna sound so boring to most people, " the rapper said.
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More importantly, you can say no to boring, ineffective communications.
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Thorkil Sonne, the founder of Specialisterne, a Danish firm that finds high-tech jobs for autistic people, says they can focus on repetitive tasks that might be boring to other workers.
"It's almost as if they were afraid of their title, " and the resulting film was too boring to be either an exciting piece of good cinema or a fun few hours.
"There are a lot of things you need to explain and tell to the Western audience (that) would be considered boring" to a Chinese audience, said Jeffrey Chan, CEO of Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop.
When people are mindful of balancing skill and challenge so that cooking, or shopping, is neither so easy as to be a boring chore nor so hard as to be an anxious-making annoyance pushing the limits of competence and time then enjoyment can be found and increased.
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She speculates that the abilities of savants in areas that neurotypicals tend to find pointless or boring may result from an ability to see differences where a neurotypical would see only similarities.
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But the car itself is the perfect antidote to millions of boring appliances rolling down the road, a reminder that life is to be enjoyed.
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We don't want to drive around in a boring car--we want to "unlock" the invincible bicycle instead.
While I'm sure the game is fun, you would have to put me in the most boring situation in the universe to get me to play something like Diner Dash.
Unless you really get along with somebody, those people will do their absolute best to tell you the same boring things they tell everybody in order to not make any mistakes and get in trouble with their publicists.
In many ways these are dreary, dreadfully boring alternatives to moon colonies and space travel.
As usual, they demagogued both issues, trotting out tired old tropes that are becoming boring even to refute.
Another 52 percent said 2013 will be rather boring compared to 2012, about the same as last year.
Where is it written that math, grammar and spelling have to be boring?
Typically, the miners work in 6ft high areas, boring holes to use explosives and working out the coal with shovels.
You may want to stay boring until this little experiment is over.
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It only takes a few expensive toys for millions to become boring.
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