Quotes About Repetition

Many of us, her mind repeated, walking with vague symptoms, breathing fear. So many of us who, through love, have a stake in life.

You let them watch the Fassbender again,' I said to Victor 'Didn't you?

The air was still and tasted flat, like water that had been boiled more than once.

The past will become the future. The future will become the past.

Sindermann knew that to ignore the past was to doom the future to repeat it.

How many of his small gestures and postures in the present were embodied echoes of the past, repetitions just beneath the threshold of his consciousness? What would happen to the past if you brought those involuntary muscle memories under your control and edited them, edited them out?

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Crucially, the effect of repetition depends [...] on a relative change moving against a relative constant, which is really the key to life's riddle of time and gratification.

a pattern that is likely to continue.

if you repeat something enough, it becomes true.

Un pensatore che non soffra il suo problema e non viva il suo pensiero, non è un pensatore ma un retore, ripetitore di formole che furono pensieri già pensati in passato da altri.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

In a world without cable channels and satellite television, videos and DVDs, movies and the Internet, an artist's creation was the one ever-present object that had to serve as a source of pleasure and inspiration over and over again, year after year, without becoming stale.

What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, [...] Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down into writing.

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning,

Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Hereby,

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you've faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.

It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.