Top 100 Don't Repeat Quotes
#1. Making a mistake isn't bad; what's bad is refusing to learn from it so you don't repeat it.
Colleen Houck
#2. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.
Harvey MacKay
#3. The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A.R. Rahman
#4. Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
Mike Michalowicz
#5. The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
Matt Groening
#7. Don't repeat this word again
Unknown
#9. The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.
Margaret Bourke-White
#10. Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?
Stephan Pastis
#11. I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.
Timbaland
#12. Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.
Joanna Russ
#13. Don't repeat yourself. It's not only repetitive, it's redundant, and people have heard it before.
Lemony Snicket
#14. The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.
Debbie Macomber
#15. like to keep my mistakes fresh. So I don't repeat them.
J.A. Huss
#16. I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
Christian Louboutin
#17. Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.
James K. Morrow
#18. Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes.
Eraldo Banovac
#19. To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
John Keats
#20. I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down
because there's a bucket of it floating around.
Donald Rumsfeld
#21. Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
Then don't repeat them.
Yasmin Mogahed
#22. I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
Tori Amos
#23. Let's just say it ended with, "Mommy shouldn't say those words. Don't repeat that.
Jennifer Fulwiler
#24. There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Pearl Bailey
#25. Then put this behind you. You don't have to change who you are because of one mistake. You only have to make sure you don't repeat it.
Kathleen Fuller
#26. I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.
Joe Carnahan
#27. Every new day is like a new birth bcz every new day is a chance to make a new life
so don't repeat and do something new every new day and live lot's of life in one life
Arya Vidhan
#28. When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
Bear Bryant
#29. Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.
Laura Schlessinger
#30. Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
Brian Eno
#31. often thought that the simple fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts - they cover up our feelings.
Svetlana Alexievich
#32. I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.
Martin Landau
#33. I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.
Matthew McConaughey
#34. Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
Winston Churchill
#35. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#36. People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson
#37. I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.
Justin Broadrick
#38. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
Brian May
#40. A disciple follows Jesus, invites others to follow him, and then trains them how to repeat the process.
Brandon D. Smith
#41. The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.
Rebecca Goldstein
#42. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#43. There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
Gail Carriger
#44. If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
#46. When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#47. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
Ursula Parrott
#49. When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
Paulo Coelho
#50. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.
Gillian Flynn
#51. Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Brian Tracy
#52. There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.
Isak Dinesen
#53. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#54. What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
Alan Furst
#56. You are a sweet man."
-"God, there it is." He flopped back on the bed, as if shot through the heart. "Repeat that to anyone, and I will have you brought up on charges of slander."
"I wouldn't dream of telling a soul.
Tessa Dare
#57. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#58. Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
David Ogilvy
#59. You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
Jacques Pepin
#60. But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack Obama
#61. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.
Dan Abnett
#62. Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
Errol Morris
#63. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#64. When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
R.C. Sproul
#65. Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat - what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.
Andre Breton
#66. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten ... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites
Sunday Adelaja
#70. I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
Benjamin Clementine
#71. I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.
Mother Teresa
#72. We need to repeat Paul's prayer: "Lord, help me to will and to work for your good pleasure.
Anonymous
#73. The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.
Laura Mullen
#74. Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A. E. Hotchner
#75. I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough ... yet." Which meant it was up to me.
Sally Field
#76. The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
Conor Oberst
#77. If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Move, hunt, kill. Like lather, rinse, and repeat.
Kendare Blake
#79. Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'
Debra Messing
#80. Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupid, so stupid that I want to repeat), I just heard that probably I have missunderstand something...
(NOte- It's joke a Get it?)
Deyth Banger
#83. He quickly saw that these people would believe anything that was shouted at them loudly and convincingly enough. He knew what would fetch their applause and bring in their memberships and he intended to repeat it over and over.
George S. Schuyler
#84. Love ... is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself
James Joyce
#85. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
Linda Greenlaw
#86. The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.
Chris Evans
#87. As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
Paul McGann
#88. Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
Luis Bunuel
#89. I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.
George Burns
#90. If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.
David Vann
#92. Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.
Eugene Gendlin
#94. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.
J.R. Rim
#95. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.
Margaret Atwood
#96. The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
James Altucher
#97. My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.
Marian Seldes
#98. Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
#99. I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.
Rick Riordan
#100. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
Sara Shepard
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