"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." ― Thomas Szasz Topic(s): Work Tags: boredom, feeling More From Thomas Szasz "Individual psychotherapy – that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship – requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver." "A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power." "No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious." More In Work "I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it’s not natural to me. So I don’t take it for granted… What I think is my natural ability – which is writing – I think I totally take that for granted."― David Duchovny "You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel."― Tim Cahill "I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job."― Walter Wager