Quotes About Recurrence

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

Policies are only meant for situations that come up over and over again.

Algo que se repite —dijo—, algo que permanece durante varios años, curiosa forma de superficialidad. Entonces fue Southworth quien le

For in grief nothing 'stays put,"' C. S. Lewis writes. "One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

I brought hurdles, all ten of them, to the beach and had my hurdling sessions very close to the water. Those days, I trained on the beach for nearly three months every season with coach Nambiar. I used to run into the water, almost chasing the receding waves, and that was how I built up strength.

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.

When I ran a small IT services business in the 1990s, it had strong recurring revenues - yet I couldn't accurately forecast cash flow for even the next few quarters. Small changes in the customer base or losing/hiring a few key employees could create massive swings in cash flow.

Patterns repeat themselves in history

Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time's recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal—whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.

We need to realize that without some notion of historical recurrence, no one can meaningfully discuss the past at all.

it would be well worth your time to start keeping a codebook, listing all the objects, people, and situations that seem to recur in your Image Streams together with what you think they might mean

History is the same thing over and over again.

I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.

We should appreciate that these recent outbreaks of new zoonotic diseases, as well as the recurrence and spread of old ones, are part of a larger pattern, and that humanity is responsible for generating that pattern. We should recognize that they reflect things that we're doing, not just things that are happening to us. We should understand that, although some of the human-caused factors may seem virtually inexorable, others are within our control.

It's probably the thousandth time

Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours?

The things we don't understand will come back again.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

hay ciertas cosas que uno no concibe que no vayan a repetirse

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

desfiin??m timpul prin repetare.

me we're right back where we started. We

Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called the lessons of history, but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.

which is a memory which happens again and again