Robin Sloan Quotes

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

I cannot abide being bored.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

When I'm trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.

I don't exclusively talk to people on social media; I don't meet people through Tinder. I try to keep it face-to-face, and to be aware if my phone is sucking me away from the rest of the world.

You walk into a restaurant these days, and what you see is everyone with their phone next to them. That is terrible. Instead of concentrating on the relationship, on the needs and activities and interests of the other person, they are constantly looking at their phone.

In every public space, everyone has their head down on their phone. Including me.

Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can't wait five minutes before staring at your phone?

Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

I get bored very quickly.

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can't stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they're constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.