"To do the same thing over and..." - Quote by Heraclitus
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.
More by Heraclitus
“I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before”
“Day by day, what you do is who you become.”
“Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.”
More on Control
“If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.”
“Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.”
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”
More on Routine
“Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.”
“I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.”
“In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.”