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Quotes About Repetition

Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
~ Sharon L. Lechter
again, again, unquestioned, not fully seen, not wanting to fully see.
~ Sharon Olds
Maybe I feel betrayed by the woman inside of me who can't bring herself to do this thing. Or maybe I feel betrayed by my mother, for not devoting herself to me and creating whatever loving memories must be created in a child to make her want to repeat the process again.
~ Sheila Heti
Maybe if she just lay on the bed for a while she would go to sleep and wake up remembering who she was. Or, maybe she would wake up and find herself on the train again, stuck in a loop like Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, waking up in precisely the same circumstances, day after day, month after month. How can I remember an old movie but not my own name?    
~ Sheila Lowe
You came back to me because I was a habit.
~ Sheila O'Flanagan
It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.
~ Nicolas Ghesquiere
Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time.
~ Emma Watson
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.
~ Gertrude Stein
Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!
~ Jamaica Kincaid
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
~ James Salter
I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.
~ Joe Bob Briggs
The more times you do something, the more likely it is you're going to get it wrong.
~ John Leguizamo
We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.
~ John Lennon
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
~ Josh Hartnett
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.
~ Josh Young
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty face from day to day.
~ William Shakespeare
Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down.
~ Jerry Garcia
A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.
~ Gary Lutz
Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Besides, life had become confoundedly dull of late. The Season had lost its charms after so many years of sameness.
~ Mary Balogh
But did he want to repeat that sort of relationship? . . . The inability to share any of his inner self with her?
~ Mary Balogh
What are you doing here? she asked. It seems that you ask me that every time we meet, he said, and I always have the same answer. I wish to talk to you.
~ Mary Balogh
I am damned if I will spend my time listenin' to ungrammatical, repetitious, imbecilic nonsense without a challenge!
~ Mary Doria Russell