Quotes About Repetition

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

The mantra becomes one's staff of life," he wrote, "and carries one through every ordeal Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Each repetition Ã¢â'¬Â¦ has a new meaning, each repetition carries you nearer and nearer to God.

When he began to talk about Wyndham, it was almost with relief, as if his purpose in life was to tell that story over and over. To tell it until its last shard had been pulled from him. As he listened to himself, he realized that the story sounded practiced as it changed from event and recollection into language, as if each retelling were an attempt to scrub away the awfulness.

The saying is actually 'Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

Or as Luther Burbank put it, "It is repetition, repetition, repetition that habituates the skill.

There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.

Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.

The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again.

Unless you keep focused on your desires through images, repetition and a positive attitude, it will come to nothing.

Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used.

Here's what happens if one repeatedly "applies the model"—at each step adding the word that has the top probability (specified in this code as the "decision" from the model): What happens if one goes on longer? In this ("zero temperature") case what comes out soon gets rather confused and repetitive:

I myself despise "Macarena," and yet I have been humming it for the past three days and my two-year-old daughter is now humming it and I'm pretty sure she will never stop.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

You can replace any pattern of behavior (or thought) with another. All it takes is relentless practice.

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

Habits run our lives. Much of what you do is based on a habit you've developed at some point in your life. In fact, according to a 2006 study conducted at Duke University, over 40 percent of what you do on a daily basis is habitual. In other words, you often complete the same actions, in the same place and at the same time. 

Forgive me if I am repeating myself but time travelling will do that to a fellow.

History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.