Quotes About Repetition

Here's the thing about standup directing: not that hard. As I said on Twitter one day, or maybe it was Instagram - sorry, I want to keep my platforms straight - it's essentially the same five shots over and over again. Seven if you're ambitious.

It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.

I always feel like there are a lot of different types of favourites. There are some that I look to for interesting things, some that I look to for acting things, others that I watch again and again.

I've probably listened to 'Try Me' by DeJ Loaf 500 times. It's a little slower than your typical strut BPM, but it still works.

Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

There's not a single day goes by when I'm in the UK and somebody doesn't say, 'Unbelievable, Jeff' to me. I must hear it 20 or 30 times a day. It's brilliant.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

History is the same story with different costumes.

She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

History repeats itself.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.