Quotes about Repetition

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. Votes: 5

Repetition is the mother of skill. Votes: 4

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Votes: 4

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. Votes: 4

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation! Votes: 4

Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented. Votes: 4

Repetition is beautiful. Votes: 3

Repetition makes reputation. Votes: 3

Repetition creates the master. Votes: 3

Repetition doesn't really exist Votes: 3

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue. Votes: 3

Repetition is a form of change Votes: 3

Repetition is the death of art. Votes: 3

Repetition is the death of magic. Votes: 3

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy Votes: 3

Repetition is the father of learning. Votes: 3

Repetition is the mother of education. Votes: 3

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. Votes: 3

Repetition is the key to real learning. Votes: 3

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches. Votes: 3

Repetition is the mother of character and skill. Votes: 3

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in. Votes: 3

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces. Votes: 3

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free. Votes: 3

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. Votes: 3

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us. Votes: 3

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown. Votes: 3

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind. Votes: 3

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning. Votes: 3

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. Votes: 3

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. Votes: 3

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end Votes: 3

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. Votes: 3

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. Votes: 3

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Votes: 3

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt. Votes: 3

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together. Votes: 3

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25 Votes: 3

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Votes: 3

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Votes: 3

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases. Votes: 3

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. Votes: 3

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Votes: 3

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium. Votes: 3

Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process. Votes: 3

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words. Votes: 3

My greatest fear: repetition. Votes: 2

Constant repetition carries conviction. Votes: 2

Happiness is the longing for repetition. Votes: 2

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. Votes: 2

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. Votes: 2

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. Votes: 2

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. Votes: 2

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. Votes: 2

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. Votes: 2

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Votes: 2

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Votes: 2

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. Votes: 2

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Votes: 2

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. Votes: 1

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. Votes: 1

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. Votes: 1

It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern. Votes: 1

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition. Votes: 1

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. Votes: 1

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs. Votes: 1

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. Votes: 1

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference. Votes: 1

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition. Votes: 1

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. Votes: 1

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' Votes: 1

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again. Votes: 1

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. Votes: 1

Constant repetition dulls receptivity .. Votes: 0

All poetry comes from repetition. Votes: 0

How much of you is repetition? Votes: 0

Filming is repetition and many takes Votes: 0

Translate goals into practice + repetition = success! Votes: 0

True repentance does not permit repetition. Votes: 0

Excuses are a promise of repetition. Votes: 0

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle. Votes: 0

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. Votes: 0

There is no substitute for attentive repetition. Votes: 0

A dancer's life is all about repetition. Votes: 0

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. Votes: 0

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure Votes: 0

Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition. Votes: 0

A truth does not become greater by repetition. Votes: 0

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Votes: 0

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work. Votes: 0

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance. Votes: 0

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition. Votes: 0

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open. Votes: 0

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. Votes: 0

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition. Votes: 0

With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed. Votes: 0

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. Votes: 0

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image. Votes: 0

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm Votes: 0

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, Votes: 0

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is. Votes: 0

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition. Votes: 0

The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition Votes: 0

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Votes: 0

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food. Votes: 0

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect. Votes: 0

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. Votes: 0

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. Votes: 0

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish. Votes: 0

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. Votes: 0

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another! Votes: 0

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. Votes: 0

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Votes: 0

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. Votes: 0

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition. Votes: 0

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ... Votes: 0

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. Votes: 0

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Votes: 0

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different. Votes: 0

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet. Votes: 0

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. Votes: 0

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. Votes: 0

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way. Votes: 0

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. Votes: 0

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. Votes: 0

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence. Votes: 0

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. Votes: 0

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. Votes: 0

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd. Votes: 0

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work. Votes: 0

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Votes: 0

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again. Votes: 0

Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage Votes: 0

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off. Votes: 0

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.... Votes: 0

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required. Votes: 0

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition. Votes: 0

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. Votes: 0

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition. Votes: 0

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. Votes: 0

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition. Votes: 0

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly. Votes: 0

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. Votes: 0

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. Votes: 0

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet. Votes: 0

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. Votes: 0

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! Votes: 0

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. Votes: 0

You can lose yourself in repetition"”quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. Votes: 0

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language Votes: 0

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. Votes: 0

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer. Votes: 0

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them. Votes: 0

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. Votes: 0

The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty. Votes: 0

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. Votes: 0

The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition. Votes: 0

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. Votes: 0

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth. Votes: 0

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. Votes: 0

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life. Votes: 0

The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition. Votes: 0

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own Votes: 0

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits. Votes: 0

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest. Votes: 0

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. Votes: 0

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition. Votes: 0

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal. Votes: 0

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways. Votes: 0

Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically. Votes: 0

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. Votes: 0

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. Votes: 0

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. Votes: 0

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions. Votes: 0

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty Votes: 0

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word. Votes: 0

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition. Votes: 0

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. Votes: 0

Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place. Votes: 0

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. Votes: 0

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again. Votes: 0

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition. Votes: 0

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. Votes: 0

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. Votes: 0

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Your frequency is what you frequently see. Pay attention to synchronicity as there are valuable lessons to be learned in the repetition of your reality. Votes: 0

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition. Votes: 0

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. Votes: 0

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. Votes: 0

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. Votes: 0

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. Votes: 0

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again. Votes: 0

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. Votes: 0

The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition. Votes: 0

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. Votes: 0

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers Votes: 0

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates. Votes: 0

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. Votes: 0

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity. Votes: 0

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair. Votes: 0

Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin? Votes: 0

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme. Votes: 0

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. Votes: 0

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it. Votes: 0

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult. Votes: 0

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. Votes: 0

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. Votes: 0

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row. Votes: 0

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition. Votes: 0

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform. Votes: 0

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. Votes: 0

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. Votes: 0

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition. Votes: 0

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. Votes: 0

People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition! Votes: 0

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? Votes: 0

I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things. Votes: 0

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation. Votes: 0

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. Votes: 0

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous. Votes: 0

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday. Votes: 0

A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas. Votes: 0

People generally believe that stress is responsible for depletion, but apathy and uninspired systematic repetition are equally responsible. Or rather, systematic repetition produces as much or more stress and anxiety as anything else. Votes: 0

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition. Votes: 0

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Votes: 0

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. Votes: 0

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends. Votes: 0

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. Votes: 0

To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good. Votes: 0

It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think. Votes: 0

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others Votes: 0

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company. Votes: 0

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them. Votes: 0

Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment Votes: 0

The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone. Votes: 0