Quotes About Repetition

That - 2012 - was definitely my best year, and sometimes it's hard to replicate that.

I've seen Jordanian television lead its newscast with three identical, consecutive scenes, all on the same royal couch. It's hilarious, and most Western reporters cackle sarcastically when they first see it. I certainly did.

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.

Casino Royale' was fabulous and I saw 'Bourne Identity' over and over again.

Since Hamas took over, nothing has happened that is good for Gaza. They keep doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result. The problem is they have an ideological movement that considers Tel Aviv a settlement.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

I'm an impatient person, so it's hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Ça dure toute la vie, une évasion. C'est tout le temps à refaire.

As the old Latin saying goes, "Repetitio est mater studiorum"—"Repetition is the mother of learning." A good plan is one that meticulously applies experimentation or experience. A great plan is one that rigorously applies both.

Sananlaskussa sanotaan, että vahingosta viisastuu, mutta se ei pidä paikkaansa, sillä kaikki, mitä tapahtuu, uusiintuu seuraavalla kerralla aivan eri lailla eikä ollenkaan, niin kuin sitä kuvittelee.

Whereas you do man-work. Build something and it's there for hundreds of years. I cook the food, do the dishes, hang out the sheets, pay gas bills, electricity bills and it all has to be done again the next time. As Virginia Woolf says, "Nothing remains of it.

For many years, Tass's life was like an echo.

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

A memória da humanidade para o sofrimento passado é surpreendentemente curta. Sua imaginação para o sofrimento futuro é ainda menor. É contra esta insensibilidade que devemos lutar. Porque a humanidade está ameaçada pelas guerras daqueles que pereceram no passado sob tentativas miseráveis, que, sem dúvida, se repetirão, se as mãos de quem as tornou públicas não forem esmagadas.

If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse. This was the thing that nearly had us mastered; Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Do something too often and it stops being special." After

One of the most significant patterns established by those who were emotionally abused in childhood is based on what is called the "repetition compulsion"—an unconscious drive to repeat the same type of abusive relationship we ourselves experienced as a child in an attempt to accomplish a new outcome. The repetition compulsion compels us to transfer our longings, conflicts, and defenses from the past onto the present in an attempt to undo the past.