Richard Diebenkorn Quotes

Down with boredom. It has to go.

Boredom is a great motivator.

Getting bored is not allowed.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

If you can't create, you destroy.

If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.

Music should be fun. If it's not fun, then you're going to get burned out; you're not going to give the best show.

I've never been one to enjoy just sitting around.

I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.

I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.

Movement inspires a lot in me.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.