Amy Seimetz Quotes

I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon, about being a couch potato, stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

If you're bored and you look bored, that's your fault.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

I must admit that I was always scared to venture out on my own because I have an issue of getting bored of things. My attention span is very short. I like to start and give up halfway.