Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen KingRead
Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Boredom can foster deep thinking and creativity in those who can tolerate it.
This quote by Stephen King suggests that individuals who are tolerant of boredom often have the opportunity to engage in reflective thinking. Rather than seeking constant stimulation, these individuals are able to process thoughts, come up with new ideas, and explore their imagination when faced with a lack of external distractions.
Themes
BoredomThinkingCreativityToleranceReflection
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about the importance of creativity and deep thinking.
More from Stephen King
All quotes →Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingRead
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingRead
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen KingRead
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Stephen KingRead
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
Stephen KingRead
Similar quotes
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.
Oswald ChambersRead
Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
Samuel BeckettRead
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
Konrad LorenzRead
Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.
Alain De BottonRead
The best way to be original is to be yourself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouRead