Quotes About Repetition

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Time drowns in the unmeasured monotony of space. Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

All the days are nothing but the same day repeating itself—or rather, since it is always the same day, it is incorrect to speak of repetition; a continuous present, an identity, an everlastingness—such words as these would better convey the idea.

Die Gewohnheit ist ein Seil. Wir weben jeden Tag einen Faden, und schließlich können wir es nicht mehr zerreißen.

In all of us is the wish to return to the has-been and repeat it, that if it were once unblest it may now be blessed.

Meditation for them consisted in making the words of the Bible their own by memorizing them and repeating them, with deep and simple concentration, "from the heart." Therefore the "heart" comes to play a central role in this primitive form of monastic prayer.

She wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.

Le sembrerà stupido, ma è una cosa che dico sempre. É un mio vizio. Insomma, mi dispiace

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

The key word among advocates of multiculturalism became "diversity." Sweeping claims for the benefits of demographic and cultural diversity in innumerable institutions and circumstances have prevailed without a speck of evidence being asked for or given. It is one of the purest examples of arguments without arguments, and of the force of sheer repetition, insistence and intimidation.

Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

Their first words always were as they ran to greet him, "What have you got for me, daddy?" and he had nothing. He would have to buy them some sweets at the station. But that was what he had done for the past four Saturdays; their faces had fallen last time when they saw the same old boxes produced again.

Whatever you do repeatedly," he writes, "has the power to shape you, has the power to make you over into a different person— even if you're not totally engaged' in every minute!

But the joke is on us: what we think we are only 'getting through' has the power to change us, just as we have the power to transform what seems meaningless—the endless repetitions of a litany or the motions of vacuuming a floor.

Feel free to pass this on to your friends or family to so all of us can be inspired and motivated together. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

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

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

It's (news) like balls in a Bingo hopper. The same events keep coming up over and over. Earthquake. Coup d'etat. Trade war. Hostage taking. My compulsion is to know whick balls are up on any given day.

No, I didn't enjoy that in the least. Do it again so I can not enjoy it some more.

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

Setiap kali melakukan pekerjaan ini, ada satu hal yang selalu muncul di benak saya. Saat terjadi kasus pembunuhan brutal, yang saya pikirkan bukan hanya menangkap si pelaku, tapi juga menyelidiki mengapa peristiwa itu bisa terjadi. Jika tidak, kesalahan sama akan terulang kembali. Banyak hal yang bisa dipelajari dari suatu kejadian. Kaga

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Perhaps George Santayana's famous aphorism that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' should be reversed – that is, it is because we remember the past that we are condemned to repeat it. The depressing re-emergence of national hatreds in the last

You had three books, now you have four. This is how libraries are built, book by book, until they are burned again. Other books will arrive from across the sea for this is not the first burning. The library has burned before, it will burn again and be rebuilt. Book by book