Merrill Markoe Quotes

People are incredible creatures of habit.

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

Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

I am always going to play the same way I always have.

I'm creature of habit.

Pugs are creatures of habit.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

How much of you is repetition?

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

The moment you're too apologetic about something and people know that something isn't finished, they listen/look for the mistakes or cracks, but if you act like it's done people experience things in a totally different way.

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!