Repetition Quotes

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

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

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

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

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

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

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

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.

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.

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.

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

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

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

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.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

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

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.

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.

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

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

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.

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

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.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

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.

Translate goals into practice + repetition = success!

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

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.

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

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

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.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

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

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

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.