Repetition Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

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.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

Filming is repetition and many takes

If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

Repetition is a form of change

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

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

Repetition is the death of art.

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

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?

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.

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

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

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.

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

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

A poet is not an apostle

You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

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.

As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.

Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because we’ve repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

Truth is unoriginal.

When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.