Top 100 Same Thing Over And Over Quotes
#1. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.
David Estes
#2. You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
Corey Taylor
#3. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
David Estes
#4. 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!"
Gina Carano
#5. Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time.
Emma Watson
#6. I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.
Alex Pareene
#7. I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
Gerry Schwartz
#9. 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.
Heraclitus
#10. 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.
G-Eazy
#11. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
#12. If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#13. Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.
Henry Seidel Canby
#14. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.
- Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
#15. I learn by doing ... the same thing over and over and over again countless times.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. She'd read somewhere that the definition of crazy was doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.
Laurelin Paige
#17. I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#18. I don't like grocery shopping. It's the same thing over and over every week. I'd like to make enough money, one day, that someone else would do it for me. Do you have to be rich for that?
Maggie Stiefvater
#19. If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me.
Guy Maddin
#20. 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.
Neil Young
#21. In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
Ted Yoho
#22. You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.
Michael Sheen
#23. 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.
Aneurin Barnard
#24. There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
John Updike
#25. 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.
Arlo Guthrie
#26. It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.
Anne Roiphe
#27. Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.
Branch Rickey
#28. For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"
Alexander Skarsgard
#29. 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.
Jenna Bush
#30. If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
Newt Gingrich
#31. Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#32. All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.
Andrea Tantaros
#33. 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.
Zooey Deschanel
#34. The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
Nat Faxon
#35. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
Brian Rock
#36. I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.
Lizzy Caplan
#37. What brings people down is the same thing over and over.
Meg Ryan
#38. I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
Naturi Naughton
#39. I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.
Wiz Khalifa
#40. If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.
Mike Shinoda
#41. Why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?
Annie Dillard
#42. Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom ... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
Mara Wilson
#43. 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.
Stephen F. Lynch
#44. I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.
Jim Shaw
#45. 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.
Chris Columbus
#46. You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.
Neko Case
#47. ...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.
Honore De Balzac
#48. She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.
Janet Fitch
#49. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
James Cook
#50. I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.
Jennifer Morrison
#51. The sheer volume of them [mass-market fiction books] was, to me, evidence of a tired culture, one which in large measure was saying the same thing over and over again in more and more words.
Michael McGirr
#52. One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.
John Fund
#53. I don't like to just have a repetitive life where I do the same thing over and over. I love to be able to learn something new, explore something new.
Anousheh Ansari
#54. Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.
David Maraniss
#55. Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don't fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.
Ashley Elston
#56. You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?
Monika Ramzy
#57. Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
Dimebag Darrell
#58. You know you have a problem when you do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Vanessa Grant
#59. One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Anthony Kiedis
#60. Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
Venus Williams
#62. I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.
Logan Lerman
#63. It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
Frank Rich
#64. I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.
Jake Shimabukuro
#65. 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.
Harvey Fierstein
#66. Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
Eli Broad
#67. If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.
Brian Tracy
#68. I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
Andrea Bocelli
#69. I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
Sue Townsend
#70. Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
Sol LeWitt
#71. If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.
Albert Einstein
#72. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Narcotics Anonymous
#73. I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.
Alan Jackson
#74. You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
Pema Chodron
#75. After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.
Grace Helbig
#76. People will get into the habit of doing the same thing over and over again, and you'll stop seeing changes in your body. If you add variety and spice things up, I think it'll help you to stay motivated.
Dara Torres
#77. History is the same thing over and over again.
Woody Allen
#78. 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.
Jonathan Meiburg
#79. I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.
Judy Blume
#80. Happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.
George Eliot
#81. I don't like normal people they r bored. They do the same thing over and over again.
Nikhil Yadav
#82. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
Andy Warhol
#83. It's always the same
you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same.
O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#84. Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
Mark Twain
#85. If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
Ray Romano
#86. Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
Sherilyn Fenn
#87. But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over.
Paul Reiser
#88. You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.
John Niven
#89. What are you wearing?" I blurt.
A slow smile spreads over his face, and his gaze flickers to my chest. "I could ask you the same thing.
Katie Delahanty
#90. Max spat his coffee out all over himself. He tried to laugh and choke at the same time and so the only thing that came out was a sputtering bark that sounded like a phlegmatic seal with a pack and a half a day Lucky Strike habit -non filtered.
Zachary J. Kitchen
#91. There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.
Jack McDevitt
#92. I don't wanna keep playing the same song over and over again. It's just thinking about "what's going to be the coolest thing to play on this particular show?" The easiest thing to do is to play the single over and over again.
John Britt Daniel
#93. I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.
Kevin Spacey
#94. I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.
Neil Gaiman
#95. Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.
Steve Farrar
#96. My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.
Will Ferrell
#97. I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.
Michael Azerrad
#98. I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.
Evan Glodell
#99. One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.
David Auburn
#100. Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
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