Quotes About Repetition

It's quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again.

The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire.

What they did not know was that she chafed at the never-endingness of it. No sooner had she cleaned one surface than it was dirty again.

Under his breath, he repeated the words of Xenophon: "Anger undermines effective communication with your horse.

I keep saying the words. Sometimes I think I dreamed it.

She seemed weary, as if she had uttered the same words many times that day already.

Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.

This is a decisive trait of the era of technological addictiveness: that one can return again and again to a neutral void that has little affective intensity of any kind.

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important

the one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

La ciudad, lo mismo que el bosque, no tiene espíritu. Ese es un invento de los poetas, una prosopopeya voluntaria que venimos repitiendo desde hace más de veinte siglos y que se ha convertido en una verdad de primer orden. (148)

Citar es respirar literatura para no ahogarse entre los tópicos castizos y ocurrentes que le vienen a uno a la pluma cuando se empeña en esa vulgaridad suprema de «no deberle nada a nadie». Y es que, en el fondo, quien no cita no hace más que repetir pero sin saberlo ni elegirlo.

directed by some amount of insight as to the direction in which a solution might lie (Baron 1988). Trial and error has also been found to be prominent in the problem-solving work of product and process development (Marples 1961; Allen 1966; von Hippel and Tyre 1995; Thomke 1998, 2003). Trial-and-error problem solving can be envisioned as a four-phase cycle that is typically repeated many

Practice makes perfect.

Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice

The rite of marriage derives from the part played by the king in the old fertility ritual. The union of the Earth Goddess with the god-king becomes the prototype of marriage, and only with the institution of this symbolic ritual did the act of sexual union, endlessly repeated for millions of years, begin to be understood consciously.

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

another story leave it dark no the same story not two stories leave it dark all the same like the rest a little darker a few words all the same a few old words like for the rest stop panting let it stop

Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.