Quotes About Repetition

We can all pick a goal and find a reason to do it. Then some of us can actually do all the little things over and over again. That's definitely a harder step. Doing it again? That's where it gets to be a beast, when you have to repeat. It's the hardest part of it all.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Things repeat themselves.

My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment and you don't capture it, it's rare to get that moment again.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot - you just can't fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It's actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there's really nowhere to hide.

To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.