Patrick Lencioni Quotes

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

…dull, stupid, lazy, stinking people.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

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

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

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.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

I'm a dull person.

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

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

The biggest advantage I have in this job is that I don't really want it.

When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

A lot of guys man, they are dull and dry.

I am a boring guy, I think.

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.

When I'm happy and everything's great, I'm not creative at all.