Quotes About Repetition

If you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will not learn it by heart so easily as if you read it ten times while attempting to recite from time to time and consulting the text when your memory fails.

gluttony. Six weeks I have been at sea, and every wave looking just like the one before, in wet procession.

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drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread forced by being to watch the birth of suns

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I abjure advice-giver.

Like about ten times in each episode, which means that if you were watching it on Cartoon Network, he might say it like fifty times before breakfast.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

It is a fact increasingly manifest that presentation of real news has sharpened the minds and the judgment of men and women everywhere in these days of real public discussion. We Americans begin to know the difference between the truth on the one side and the falsehood on the other, no matter how often the falsehood is iterated and reiterated. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

of amazing intelligence, they learn quickly and remember easily with few repetitions. There is often an uncanny understanding of what is wanted and needed of them at any given time. Bred to love people, they bond very tightly to their owners."24 Instead

Et aujourd'hui, quand il revenait là-bas, dans sa montagne, il reprenait les mêmes chemins, à la nuit. Comme quoi c'est désespérant, l'être humain, ça s'attache à ce qu'il a de pire.

Heute Ist immer noch (Today is like always).

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The simplest solutions are the best. Repeating

How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

One can cut the body, and it will heal - but do it over and over again in the same spot, and you will scar. The soul cannot be so different.

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

He clutched to these names, repeating each one in his head, holding them like precious gemstones. The names mattered. The men mattered.

Somebody tell me that I should just go speak to the kings again." "uh," Sing said, "didn't I just do that?" "I need to her it again, Sing," Grandpa Smedry said. "I'm old and stubborn!

One can cut the body, and it will heal—but do it over and over again in the same spot, and you will scar.

You're starting to sound a lot like my mother.' 'Captivating?' Syl said. 'Amazing, witty, meaningful?' 'Repetitive.' 'Captivating?' Syl said. 'Amazing, witty, meaningful?' 'Very funny.

My business is trying to arouse human pity. There are few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is when they've been used several times, they no longer work. So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police.