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Quotes About Repeating

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
~ David Cassidy
My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.
~ Charlemagne Palestine
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
~ James Russell Lowell
In all of history, we have found just one cure for errora partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
~ William M. Kucmierowski
then, with no emotion in her voice, as though repeating a thing which did not really concern her, she said, "I don't see why Claude Daigle got the medal. It was mine. Everybody knew it was mine.
~ William March
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
~ David Brin
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
~ Lily Tomlin
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
~ Saul Williams
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mockingbird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.
~ Kate Chopin
Many men have triumphantly exploited a minuscule talent through life only to ruin themselves by muffing their deaths. Missing their proper exit cues they have hung around like dreary guests at a party, repeating themselves until it is made clear to all how little they ever had to say.
~ Dawn Powell
The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.
~ Roald Dahl
But how could Yoel, of all people, not realize that Gush Emunim, with its vision of unrestrained power and occupation, was repeating the very sin of arrogance that had led to Yom Kippur?
~ Yossi Klein Halevi
But sometimes a person's brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you're inside that loop, you can't see past it. You'll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they're outside the loop. Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome...
~ Emily Bronte
Inna Bohoslovska is scaring everyone by repeating that Putin wants war.
~ Andrey Kurkov
Nonetheless, the producers, repeating past errors, exercised no discipline and drilled far beyond the system's capacity.
~ Ron Chernow
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
~ Anne Sexton
When you overfit decision quality to outcome quality, you risk repeating decision errors that, thanks to luck, preceded a good outcome. You may also avoid repeating good decisions that, because of luck, didn't work out.
~ Annie Duke
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
~ Robert Nozick
If a pattern of triangles keeps repeating, then it is a very strong message, and we need to listen to what it is trying to tell us.
~ Liz Greene
And how many cases where no one came back, making nothing to remark? No tale worth repeating? One hundred to one? Five hundred to one? The exception always gets more attention than the rule. I'm not sure you should race off down this road too quickly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
As an actor, overexposure can affect you negatively if you keep repeating yourself. But thankfully, my films are really different from each other.
~ Varun Dhawan
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
~ Saul Williams
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
~ Anne Sexton