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Quotes About Repetitive

Farming is repetitive in a rhythmic, cyclical way that is by turns comforting and frustrating; some people find it invigorating, while others flee to the city and never look back.
~ Samantha Johnson
dull and repetitive lifestyle.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Îmi pare r?u c? nu suf?r de halucinaÅ£ii ca s? înjgheb o conversaÅ£ie cu vocile m?rii, spre a uita pe oameni ÅŸi femeile lor. Destinul meu de ex-amorezat într'o lume de p??iri zadarnice ÅŸi repetate m? apropie mai mult ca niciodat? de prostia elementelor, de clarele non-r?spunsuri ale naturii.
~ Emil Cioran
Human beings were such ridiculously predictable creatures.
~ Barbara Dunlop
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
~ barth karl ii
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
~ Larry Wall
With agriculture, art lost its variety and became standardized into geometric designs that tended to degenerate into dull, repetitive patterns, a perfect reflection of standardized, confined, rule-patterned life.
~ John Zerzan
The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated, the whole series is predictable and follows a predetermined course to a foreordained conclusion unless special conditions arise.
~ Eric Berne
My life is spent in hotels, which tend to be quite disappointing if you're in them every night.
~ Michael McIntyre
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
~ Helen Fisher
After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.
~ James Nicoll
Slaughtering swine, he writes, is repetitive, brutish work..... Five thousand quit and five thousand are hired every year. You ear people say, 'They don't kill pigs in the plant, they kill people.
~ Matthew Scully
I've been having nightmares," she said quietly. "Basically the same dream for months now. I'm exhausted.
~ Barbara Davis
If you hump away at menial jobs 360-plus days a year, does some kind of repetitive injury of the spirit set in? I don't know and I don't intend to find out, but I can guess that one of the symptoms is a bad case of tunnel vision. Work fills the landscape; coworkers swell to the size of family members or serious foes. Slights loom large, and a reprimand can reverberate into the night.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.
~ Vera Brosgol
Persons of good sense are necessarily dull, because they revolve over and over again the tedious topics of everyday life.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.
~ Tay Keith
The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
~ Ira Glass
I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.
~ Ann McKee
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.
~ Will Self
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
~ Bruce Feiler
I thought late-night was crowded... the format's repetitive.
~ Craig Kilborn
I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
~ Joe Dante
I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird's eye view of it.
~ Eric Andre