Quotes About Repetition

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

A Belgian motorist was complaining that his turn signal had been defective and was going :"once it worked!, once it didn't work!, once it worked!, once it didn't work!, once it...."

She and Addie Mae made quick work of the dishes and had the kitchen looking spotless in no time. Of course, it would be a mess again the next night, but that was how things worked in the restaurant business; she wouldn't have had it any other way.

La storia è una monotona ripetizione; gli uomini sono stati, sono e saranno sempre gli stessi.

I'm a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

La historia no se repite, pero a veces se parodia a sí misma

Mi vida ha sido siempre una repetida historia: me la paso liberándome de mitos, de gentes y de cosas; ahora me libero de mí mismo.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

It is because you have a picture of injustice engraved in your subconscious. History will repeat itself until you think you are cursed with misfortune and injustice.

We can learn to control our thoughts in the same way, by gentle determination, not force. We take an affirmation and repeat it continually, while our thoughts are on the rampage. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: "But I've read all this before…" You knew the opening, you were already bored by the middle, and, especially, you knew the end….

Recette pour aller mieux. Répéter souvent ces trois phrases : le bonheur n'existe pas. L'amour est impossible. Rien n'est grave.

La vie est une sitcom: une suite de scènes qui se déroulent toujours dans les mêmes décors, avec à peu près les mêmes personnages, et dont on attend les prochains épisodes avec une impatience teintée d'abrutissement.

C'est donc cela, la vie d'adulte ; construire des châteaux de sable puis sauter dessus à pieds joints, et recommencer l'action, encore et encore, alors qu'on sait bien que les océans les auraient effacées de toute façon ?

Sl?pošana ir m?ta par S?zifu m?sdienu versija.

Unser ganzes Unglück rührt daher, dass wir uns nie wiederholen wollen. Als gebe es mehrere Wahrheiten.

Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible.

Dime lo que lees y te diré quien eres; eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees".

Repitiendo la operación, envíala por correo. 5. Al recibir esta segunda carta en casa, léela con atención y ten muy presente todo lo que se dice ella. Es una lección de vida del mejor maestro del mundo: tú mismo.

But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.

Nature repeats herself, or almost does: repeat, repeat, repeat, revise, revise, revise.

So, here we are, back where we were before. And before that. And before that.