“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”
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Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 5, The Canada Pension Plan, p. 92
“Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready.”
Hearts of Oak. Compare: "Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men", S. J. Arnold, Death of Nelson.
“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”
Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
"Catholics", published in The Edinburgh Review (1827)
“Anything that lives forever gets bored.”
Source: Ironskin (2012), Chapter 5, “Fey Beauty” (p. 81)
“Never do anything that bores you.”
Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb (1993)
Context: Never do anything that bores you. My experience in science is that someone is always telling to do something that leaves you flat. Bad idea. I'm not good enough to do something I dislike. In fact, I find it hard enough to do something that I like. … Constantly exposing your ideas to informed criticism is very important, and I would venture to say that one reason both of our chief competitors failed to reach the Double Helix before us was that each was effectively very isolated.