90 Same Old Thing Quotes

Following is our list of same old thing quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about when you have everything.

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Famous Same Old Thing Quotes

Everybody is doing the same old thing. - Missy Elliot

Everybody is doing the same old thing. — Missy Elliot

The world remains ever the same. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about. — Johnny Mercer

The more things change, the more they stay different. — Melissa de la Cruz

Some things will never change. - Bruce Hornsby

Some things will never change. — Bruce Hornsby

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun. — Nas

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. — Andre Gide

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. — Travis Tritt

All life long, the same questions, the same answers. — Samuel Beckett

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before. — Tommy Cooper

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen. — Beth Moore

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. — Anonymous

Things don't change, only the way you look at them. - Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them. — Carlos Castaneda

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

We're so used to doing what we've always done that we don't stop to question whether it's the right thing to do at all. — James Clear

Short Same Old Thing Quotes

  • There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. — Marie Antoinette
  • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein
  • No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done — Nas
  • Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. — Chinese Proverbs
  • If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. — Tony Robbins
  • History repeats itself and that's just how it goes. — J. Cole
  • People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. — Charles Kettering
  • everything changes, nothing perishes — Ovid
  • If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old — Peter Drucker
  • There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual. — Sayings

Same Old Thing Image Quotes

Same old thing quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Doing The Same Old Thing Quotes

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. — William J. Clinton

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing. — Chris Van Hollen

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. — George Burns

Same old thing quote Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us — Yasunari Kawabata

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time. — Cobi Jones

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing. — Mark Batterson

If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived. — Christy Moore

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. — Michael Caine

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. — Colin Greenwood

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself. — Chris Wooding

When You Have Everything Quotes

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it. — Mother Angelica

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis

I have this disease-like need to try to create something new. When you're kind of being chased, and everything you do goes so well, you develop this sickness and a sense of need to constantly do something different. — G-Dragon

When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles. — Tupac Shakur

Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. — Edith Stein

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. — Erma Bombeck

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up. — Robert Noyce

When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one." — Carli Lloyd

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?' — Leonardo DiCaprio

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More Same Old Thing Quotes

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter. — Bat Masterson

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it. — Jennifer Coolidge

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. — Toni Braxton

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening. — Louis Kahn

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out. — Seth Green

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew. — Ellen Langer

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing. — Tim Burton

I don't like the same old thing all the time. — Cobi Jones

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it. — Mark Batterson

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain. — Kid Cudi

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? — Jamie Zawinski

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things. — Hal Hartley

Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different. — John Ashbery

Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.' — Sterling Hayden

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it. — Jonathan Stroud

Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really. — Patrick Stump

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood. — Ansel Adams

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. — Robert Rodriguez

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat! — Jerome Richardson

Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions. — Echo Bodine

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog. — George Horace Lorimer

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new. — Peter Diamandis

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. — Terry Pratchett

That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day. — David Wroblewski

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much. — Byron Dorgan

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional. — Sylvia Plath

That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go. — Miles Davis

I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun. — Floyd Norman

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing. — Joseph Plaskett

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other. — Will Rogers

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music. — Charles Frazier

But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad. — Rebecca Skloot

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old. — Francis Ford Coppola

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