Quotes About Repetition

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to take any more stupid questions about Donald Trump. It's not what I focus on every day.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

It is the horror of war that, with each newly arrived generation, the nightmare is reprised by innocents.

How many times, dear traveller, will you walk the same path?

They are the sentinels of futility. Acquitors of the absurd. Reflections of ourselves, forever trapped in aimless repetition. Forever indistinct, for that is all we can manage when we look upon ourselves, upon our lives. Sensations, memories and experiences, the fetid soil in which thoughts take root. Pale flowers beneath an empty sky.

Go ask 'em if you like." "No. Too much effort. The bad thing about asking questions—" "Is gettin' answers, aye - you've said that before." "That is another bad thing - the way we all end up saying the same things over and over again.

Release gets addictive, you see. It becomes a fixed behaviour, as destructive as any other. Keep repeating the exercise of grief and it loses meaning, it becomes rote, false, a game of self-delusion, self-indulgence. A way of never getting over anything, ever.

Keep repeating the exercise of grief and it loses meaning, it becomes rote, false, a game of self-delusion, self-indulgence. A way of never getting over anything, ever.

Pou?ení z historie je to, že se z ní nikdy nikdo nepou?í.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

A lie once told remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth," the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels memorably claimed.