Quotes About Repetition

life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony

I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

know what the prophecy says because he translated it for Mum, repeated it a dozen times over trying to persuade her, because he didn't know Mum well enough to understand that the one thing she'll never go for is the lesser evil.

I have slept so many times you might think I would really be awake by now

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false.

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is, finally, accepted and acted upon by the subconscious mind

any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

A tired sales presentation. Running through your sales presentation as if you were tired of hearing it

Habits make no moral judgments; they can be either good or bad. Both are formed through repetition.

The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.

like a book read over and over again like one book being a long row of books like leaves and windflowers bending low and bending to be never broken

He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.

A háborúnak nincs emlékezete, mivel senkinek sincs bátorsága ahhoz, hogy megértse, mi is történt valójában; aztán egyszer csak nem marad szemtanú, aki elmesélhetné; eljön a pillanat, amikor már senki sem emlékszik, s akkor kezdÅ'dik elölrÅ'l az egész, új arccal, új néven, és azt is felfalja, amit maga után hagyott.

El amor es la única piedra que siempre tropieza con el mismo hombre

People get so used to lying and repeating other people's lies, either because they're afraid or out of self-interest, resentment, or sheer stupidity, that they end up lying even when they think they're telling the truth. It's the failing of our times.

Es como la marea, ¿sabe usted?—decía, ido—. La barbarie, digo. Se va y uno se cree a salvo, pero siempre vuelve, siempre vuelve... y nos ahoga.

It took ten years In the woods to tell that a mushroom Stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse, that birds Are the uttered thought of trees, that a greying wolf Howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out Season after season, same rhyme, same reason.

Have I told you today that you look mighty fetchin' in that outfit? he said as he opened the door for her. Only three times, she answered. Well, then make it four.