Top 100 Quotes About Repetition
#1. Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
Kiki Smith
#2. Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.
Earl Nightingale
#3. Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.
Teju Cole
#4. Normal people don't have to decide what's worth remembering. You are given a hierarchy, recurring characters, the help of repetition, of anticipation, the firm hold of a long history.
David Levithan
#5. Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body.
John Crowley
#6. Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
Michel De Montaigne
#8. I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.
Alfred Molina
#9. The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
John Wooden
#10. No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Twyla Tharp
#11. When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.
Edward Weston
#12. Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
Mason Cooley
#13. Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.
Leo Bersani
#14. Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness.
Peter Sloterdijk
#17. Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
Bill Drayton
#18. When people want success but visualize failure, they attract failure because they don't know about the power of repetition/visualization.
Hina Hashmi
#20. There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
Gertrude Stein
#21. Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
Ramana Maharshi
#22. Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#23. Sin is the repetition of an absence, whose logic is suppression, aversion, and privation.
David Bentley Hart
#24. Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.
Bob Proctor
#25. He was beginning to feel that depression caused by the repetition of the same kind of life, when no interest inspires and no hope sustains it.
Anonymous
#26. Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.
Amy Chua
#27. Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.
James T. McCay
#28. I'd say there's more of a difference between a play and movie to TV than there is between TV and movies. But there's something involved in the repetition of things that require something different from me in order to sign onto a script.
Brie Larson
#29. Each repetition pales by degrees because, when you return to what you already know, it can't be experienced for the first time.
Deepak Chopra
#30. Your thoughts exist. Whatever you have thought today, yesterday or many years back, it is energy and it exists. Your attention activates thoughts and it is strengthened with your repetition.
Hina Hashmi
#32. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
Napoleon Hill
#33. I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#35. We're all related, after all, so there's going to be some repetition of creative instinct. Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#37. And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera
#38. The relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
Linda Ronstadt
#39. Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.
Natalie Goldberg
#40. Repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.
Daniel Coyle
#41. A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.
Jon Ronson
#42. Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.
Frederick Lenz
#43. A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
Walker Percy
#44. A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
Daniel Kahneman
#45. Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.
Susan Sontag
#46. Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.
Graham Greene
#47. What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
Steven Millhauser
#48. The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.
Martin Short
#50. It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
Dan Phillips
#51. But it is the repetition, from all walks of life, that slowly destroys, turns the looking-glass into a mirror, distorting or true, both cruel.
Christine Brooke-Rose
#52. I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Graham Nelson
#53. the enemy of security: repetition leads to patterns, and cryptanalysts thrive on patterns.
Simon Singh
#54. I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.
Tom Daley
#55. Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Walter Lippmann
#56. It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
Maria Montessori
#57. Love, certainly, might be a momentarily strong force capable of moving individuals in strange and remarkable ways, but given sufficient time and the relentless weathering effects of repetition it will always and ultimately diffuse into boredom and melancholy.
John Zande
#58. Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
Rick Allen
#59. For only through assiduous repetition is it possible to redistribute skewed tendencies.
Haruki Murakami
#60. The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
George M. Gilbert
#61. We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#62. True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.
James Rozoff
#63. I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?
Adam Ross
#64. 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
#66. The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
G. Campbell Morgan
#67. Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns
Frank Bidart
#68. Camarin and I are both baffled by the pleasure humans find with bowling. The noise is maddening, the equipment unsanitary, and the repetition boring.
Elizabeth Langston
#69. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
Daniel Kahneman
#70. The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition.
Hanif Kureishi
#72. the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
Mark Rothko
#74. The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.
Krishna Das
#75. In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor
Italo Svevo
#76. Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition ... Yet change is life's only constant.
Laurie Beth Jones
#77. You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away.
Curtis Stone
#78. Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
Bill Drayton
#79. Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.
David F. Swensen
#80. I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.
Clarice Lispector
#81. Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
William Osler
#82. Hell is repetition, you go over and over and over. That's hell, so I will eat your eyes in hell, I will be waiting you in hell, I will repeat that over and over and over...
Deyth Banger
#83. The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.
Mason Cooley
#84. I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
Jack Dorsey
#85. But you invite ... "
"I invite a bit of military nonsense."
"That's what I ... "
"Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson."
"What lesson?"
"The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.
Frank Herbert
#88. reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.
Andrew Murray
#89. There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.
Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time.
Cecilia Llompart
#90. Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25
Yann Martel
#91. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Martin Buber
#93. You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror ... But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.
John Irving
#94. There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again.
William Gibson
#95. Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
Pina Bausch
#96. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.
John Wooden
#97. That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did the odd witticism matter?
Lauren Willig
#98. Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.
ASAP Ferg
#100. Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
