Repetition Quotes

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

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

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

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Repetition is the death of magic.

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

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

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

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.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.

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

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

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

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

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

All poetry comes from repetition.

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

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

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

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

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

Repetition doesn't really exist

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

Repetition creates the master.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

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.

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.

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.

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

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