Repeatable Quotes

#1. In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.

Robert Dessaix

#3. No woman was ever like you. The Lord made only one, without carbons. You are not repeated and you are not repeatable. No one else can do what the Lord sent you to do.

Barbara B. Smith

#4. The key to building a successful and solid business is to find a system that works for you and is repeatable.

K Moehr

#5. One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.

Aaron Ross

#6. We are leaving behind a universe of forms determined by exactly repeatable, visible imprints and moving toward a new visual environment dominated by exactly transmissible but invisible algorithms.

Mario Carpo

#7. One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.

Friedrich Hund

#8. Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

#9. The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

Thomas Cahill

#10. In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).

Daniel Coyle

#11. Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design. But to put them together and make it robust and repeatable for the mass market? It's an art.

Tony Fadell

#13. The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Robert McKee

#14. You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.

Lennon Parham

#15. I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation ... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

Sam Altman

#16. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Vilem Flusser

#17. Entrepreneurship is about telling a story that connects the deep needs of a group of people with a repeatable solution.

Evan Baehr

#18. Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible.

Pearl Zhu

#19. Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

Gerald Edelman

#20. A "sales process" typically refers to a teachable, repeatable set of steps that you or a sales team could use when working with a potential client or customer to move them from a 'lead' to a 'closed' sales or customer.

Todd Parker

#21. I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

Paul Theroux

#22. Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Walter Lang

#23. 'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

Jon Landau

#24. A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Steve Blank

#25. We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. Tonight, unhappy with your love, your job, your life, not enough money? Use your head. You can think yourself into a lot better you. Positive thoughts can transform, can attract the good things you know you want. Sound far-fetched? Think again. It's supported by science.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#27. (...) and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...)

James Joyce

#28. You need good training partners - because you're only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

Cain Velasquez

#29. Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

Nicole Krauss

#30. Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

#31. It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Gilbert Parker

#32. In the depth of silence
be speechless
to listen the song of life,
song of creation of life,
primordial song.
Be silent, and listen to your heart.
Can you hear
The song of life,
The song of love,
The song of creation?

Debasish Mridha

#33. New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.

Bill Maher

#34. (You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to hell because it doesn't know where or what hell is ... )

Charles Bukowski