Top 100 Quotes About Repeating
#1. Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#2. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Dalai Lama XIV
#3. People who say, "it is not my fault," continuously fail. People who say, "I've done no wrong," have not done enough right. People who say, "I am done!" are never done repeating the cycle. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can't sow lies and reap truth.
Katina Ferguson
#4. People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.
Ioan Gruffudd
#5. The feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but instead corrodes people's souls, repeating over and over: 'No one is interested in you, you're nothing, the world doesn't need your presence.
Paulo Coelho
#6. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.
Dave Sim
#7. What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.
Judy Budnitz
#8. Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever.
Sarvesh Jain
#9. I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
Fashawn
#10. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere
Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise
Diana Rasmussen
#11. Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
Joost Meerloo
#12. Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes; the price that you have
to pay is often too high.
Eraldo Banovac
#13. A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lea
#14. There is no prophecy in our day but history. But history is a trustworthy prophet. History is always repeating itself, because conditions are always repeating themselves. Out of duplicated conditions history always gets a duplicate product.
Mark Twain
#15. Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?
Rick Riordan
#16. I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer
#17. When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.
Philip Kerr
#18. He kept telling and I kept repeating "I Know" sometimes people doesn't need answers, they just need you to hear them what they say, make them that they are heard, Vijay was like that, he doesn't need any one sympathizing to him, he just needed people to listen to him.
Shaikh Ashraf
#19. I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.
Willa Holland
#20. It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done in the past in the hope we can stop repeating these horrible lessons.
Matana Roberts
#21. The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can find the rules for the way that the universe generally works. But if you were to try and use it to prove that Henry VIII had six wives, you would be powerless.
Lewis N. Roe
#22. The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.
David Karp
#23. If you want to avoid repeating a mistake, spend some time studying it. Set any negative feelings you might have aside, acknowledge the factors that led up to your misstep, and learn from it.
Amy Morin
#24. Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
William Carlos Williams
#25. Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
Al Pacino
#26. Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.
Deepak Chopra
#27. Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz
#28. For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Helen Rowland
#29. One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
Douglas Adams
#30. I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.
Hillary Clinton
#31. Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.
Eduardo Galeano
#32. Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
Lily Tomlin
#33. I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
George Michael
#34. Humans and their governments have effectively neutered the population to the point that they're just skinbags, mouth-breathers and pseudo-intellectuals repeating political, religious or academic rhetoric that they don't even understand!
Brad McKinniss
#35. What was the definition of insanity? Repeating the same action and expecting different results?
Kathy Reichs
#36. Cactus face over there doesn't look happy," Audrey whispered and we both giggled. "Maize calls that resting bitch face," I said and immediately felt bad for repeating it. "Let's not be mean. Maybe she's just constipated.
Giselle Fox
#37. We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.
Jessie J.
#38. Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
Starhawk
#39. So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
Gunther Schuller
#40. Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
Mason Cooley
#41. So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. Most days Lily is the steady drumbeat. The rhythm of my heart. The repeating melody of the music in my head. But not today.
Emily McKay
#44. In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#45. My dear People, began Bilbo, rising in his place. 'Hear! Hear! Hear!' they shouted, and kept on repeating it in chorus, seeming reluctant to follow their own advice.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128
Donna Tartt
#47. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
John Wooden
#48. It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
Willem Dafoe
#49. When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
Alexandre Aja
#50. I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.
Doug Liman
#51. - sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome ...
Emily Bronte
#52. Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment.
Timothy Pina
#53. Repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them.
Plato
#54. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#55. Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing ... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
David Gilmour
#56. I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
Paul Engle
#57. Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
Malcolm Forbes
#58. The beautiful thing about history is that we keep repeating it. So if you know the past, you know the future.
L.G. Rivera
#59. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.
Harper Lee
#60. If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
Robert Smith
#61. If you feel stuck in your life, like it's passing you by, like there's something way better for you somewhere out there and you're missing it, try this - try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start.
Rob Bell
#62. History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
James A. Garfield
#63. I don't like repeating mistakes, but sometimes, I think we're both forever stuck on a turntable.
Krista Ritchie
#64. Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#65. Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no reason why I should not admit that some may get their ideas by observing, or by repeating observations.
Karl Popper
#66. My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties ... welcome to my world.
Bill Engvall
#67. Help yourself warm up and prepare mentally by repeating, "I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel terrific!" It is not possible for you to talk positively to yourself, using words like this, without immediately feeling happier and more confident.
Brian Tracy
#68. My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.
Charlemagne Palestine
#69. After repeating almost everything I said, I excused my
accent and told them that I knew I spoke like I had plums in my mouth.
I then had to explain that was a British expression, as their faces read as
though I was saying I'd had their brother-in-law's balls on my tongue.
Greg Hogben
#70. I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.
Michiel Huisman
#71. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.
Maddy Malhotra
#72. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Often,
Markus Zusak
#73. People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#74. Verbal fluency is the product of hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is hte product of hours spent repeating scales." p. 26
Stanley Fish
#75. Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.
Ron Fairly
#76. We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Virginia Woolf
#77. In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.
Jeff Pulver
#78. This new thought has turned into a mantra repeating itself in my head: I am a daring, fun, sexy woman.
Anna Bayes
#79. The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
Julius Wellhausen
#80. We reshape the story even when we believe we are simply repeating it.
Chang-rae Lee
#81. Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.
Larry McCleary
#82. Repeating is harder than anything else.
Usain Bolt
#83. Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.
William Dean Howells
#84. If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.
John P. Marquand
#85. I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.
Robert Maxwell
#86. The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.
Henry David Thoreau
#87. One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the mind".
Amit Ray
#88. In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
Maya Angelou
#89. A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
Charles M. Schulz
#90. My dear,' said the old men gently, 'I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure.
E. M. Forster
#91. A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
Honore De Balzac
#92. Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'
Kurt Braunohler
#93. I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.
Zach Condon
#94. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#95. Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav
#96. This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the future, creating an interlacing pattern, a grand design, a repeating motif. Don't dismiss myth, boy. And never, ever, dismiss the Bookman
Lavie Tidhar
#97. The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
Albert Einstein
#98. Repeating the same behavior will just get you the same results. "As
Spencer Johnson
#99. As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.
Corey Taylor
#100. An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.
Stuart Wilde
