Daniel Levitin Quotes

I hate getting bored.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

I get bored in Hollywood.

Variety is the key to not being bored.

I don't get bored.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?

That's the great thing about this sport: it's always different.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.