Stanislaw Lem Quotes

It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.

I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

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 hate to do the same thing twice.

Routines can be a rut.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

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

My greatest fear: repetition.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

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

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.