Martin Parr Quotes

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

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.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

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

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

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

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

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.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

Habit is a great deadener.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.