Top 1200 Tripping Over Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

It's funny, because it's like the fight when you watch it, it's probably going to be like five minutes, but it's taken us like a month to shoot it so I think what was really interesting was that instead of going through an entire fight sequence, you're doing one or two moves over and over and over, so I'd say it's less exhausting than actually training, because you're not really constantly going over the choreography, like the whole entire thing with everybody. You're just doing that one part that they need in the shot.

I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

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.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

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.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

I guess that's a chance you have to take when you try to do anything different or creative or artsy. You can't just keep painting the same picture over and over.

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.

One of the things I hate about politicians, I shouldn't say I hate things, but one of the things I hate about politics is people who repeat the same talking point over and over and over again.

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.

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

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

If I don't like how I have sang something I will just go over and over it, but I need to give myself some credit.

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.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.

Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It's important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes a long way.

It's about respecting what I think people like about the original music. I'm not gonna ever take it to the extent that I'm kinda George Lucas-ing moments of the album over and over again, trying to get them right over the next 30 years - I don't wanna do anything like that. But, yeah - it's a... fascinating conundrum through the years.

I used to have stomach ulcers and stuff when I was in the 10th grade. I'd be doubled over on the floor, I was hurting so bad. I was on Tagamet before it was over the counter.

Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we're thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can't access.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.

If I had to say how much I've paid in fines over my career, I'm sure it's over $500,000, going toward $1 million.

If I ever feel a sense of anxiety, it's usually over things that I have some control over, or I'm anxious about me making the right decision.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

The only thing that holds the government back from just going ballistic on us is the Second Amendment. When we become disarmed, it's over. It's over.

I get easily bored, so it's better for me to be a session player rather than playing the same music over and over again.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I took the step over to Europe to play at a big club at a young age. I think that's what's hard for a lot of people, moving over there.

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

Iran is taking over Iraq. They've been trying to for many, many decades. And now they're finally taking over Iraq. As we sit here, they're taking over Iraq. We get nothing.

My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me is a fine example - even if I disagreed with some of their choices.

Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

I'll never forget seeing 'Guys and Dolls' over and over. I used to sit up in the coliseum watching this magnificent musical. Brilliant.

Years of research show us that the less control a person feels over an aversive stimuli coming at them, the more likely they are to disengage. Complete loss of control over a sustained period of time can actually lead to depression. It then follows that giving the person a level of control over the situation reduce the stress - and perhaps restore the disengagement.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.