Quotes About Repetition

Turn it," Thomas said, without smiling. "Play it again.

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Take a perfect circle, caress it and you'll have a vicious circle.

Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

The word "pioneer" betrays a disturbing willingness to repeat the worst mistake of the pioneers of the American West—the mistake of considering an inhabited place uninhabited. To imagine oneself as a pioneer in a place as densely populated as Chicago is either to deny the existence of your neighbors or to cast them as natives who must be displaced. Either way, it is a hostile fantasy.

I didn't make the history," Ralph said. "I just repeat it.

Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

I remember when 'Bloodsport' came out - I used to watch that movie over and over again.

I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be able to have that clarity of experience that changes us, so that we know who we are now because of who we have been at some other time.

Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that they are already familiar with.

With every rep, you're going to get better.

You try to learn as much as you can with each rep.

There are always things that I am looking to improve upon, but I think I am learning from every rep and filing those reps away.

If I get tired, my concentration goes away. My decision-making isnt as razor sharp as it was. I will repeat myself; my memorys not great, I forget words.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself.

When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.