Quotes About Repetition

You don't have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough.

If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.

Repetition sometimes works in poetry, but rarely in prose. The musical provocateur John Cage once wrote a lecture in which a single page was repeated fourteen times, with the refrain "If anybody is sleep let him go to sleep" (Cage, 1961). Midway through, the artist Jean Reynal stood up and screamed, "John, I dearly love you, but I can't bear another minute.

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

life goes on ad nauseam.

The person who first said that the more things change the more they stay the same hit the universal nail right on the holographic head.

If one has ever wondered how an entire nation could have followed a murderous leader, one needs to understand that it doesn't take that many people actually believing what the leader says. They just need to be willing to repeat whatever their side is saying.

going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

All things cyclical sustain hope. All things cyclical imply futility.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Caution: psychiatrists. There are hundreds of psychiatrists in this story, and each of them has a catchphrase they repeat over and over. Reading this story will make you hate psychiatrists, even if you are a psychiatrist.

the toledoth or genealogy, 'These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.' Now by careful exegesis of the tablet text, I noticed that there was an unusual repetitive reference to 'Ham, the father of Canaan.' Hermeneutics, or the art of textual interpretation, would tell us that such repetition points toward an unusual identity of the object.

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.

Why was it that at every grown-up function, the exact same conversation had to take place? Sometimes Emily felt as if she could hand out scripts, to save everybody the trouble of thinking, except that there would be no point, because they weren't thinking--they were just saying the same things they'd said the last time.

It is the same old story. Night owns the copyright

Each wave was the only wave.

Oops!... I did it again.

It is often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. But I suggest that the definition of sanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and being perfectly happy with the result.

Only a fool has never climbed Mount Fuji; only a fool has climbed it more than once." I needed that once. John I became disoriented

Patterned, repetitive, rhythmic activity makes the overactive and overly reactive core regulatory networks (see Figure 2) get back "in balance." Music falls into this category—both playing and listening. All sports involve doses of it. Dance, too.

We'd found that these developmentally appropriate enrichment and therapeutic experiences had to be provided repeatedly and consistently in a respectful and caring manner.

Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.