Top 1200 Saying The Same Thing Over And Over Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Most filmmakers give me the reference of my own songs; doing the same thing over and over again doesn't push you to do better.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show.

Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I should change that and maybe write my own thing.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.

I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.

You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.

I don't like to be doing the same thing over and over again, so I keep trying other things.

Doing the same thing over and over again can be boring, I want to explore as much as I can.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

It's important for Ross and I to try stuff and not feel like we're doing the same thing over and over again.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

I don't think there's a ton of new new stuff about doing a sitcom or doing a multi-camera show, but they work. They're fun, and they're energetic, and they're short. And when you fall in love with one - like, I will watch Seinfeld, I'll watch Will & Grace, all those reruns. I just can never get enough. I watch the same ones over and over and over. I watch the same movies that make me laugh over and over and over. I was hoping to be part of something like that.

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Because of the irresistible nature of our own Imagos, I think the replication of it in music is a siren song - we love those tormented songs, and we listen to them over and over and over the way that we smash ourselves into our lovers, or the same kind of lover, over and over. That drive is tireless, until it is resolved. And we can "enjoy" it safely through music, which is a simulacrum we have power over.

When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake?and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.

The last time I was asked that, I said "A Year Without Spoons." Normally you get asked the same questions over and over, so it feels boring to say the same thing. But then I was like, I don't even know another essay I like. They're all good.

That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

If you do the same thing over and over again, then you will definitely get stale and jaded like most actors do.

I won't do the same thing over and over again.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture . . . I’m not saying he doesn't like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.

I think my biggest thing is learning when to hit which serve when, not doing the exact same thing over and over. Because O.K., great, it's 120 miles per hour, but they're standing right there, and they just block it back.

I am constantly amazed at the musicians that are able to do the same thing over and over for 20 or more years. That would drive me absolutely insane.

History is the same thing over and over again.

There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes over and over again you start slowly hating yourself.