Quotes About Repetition

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.

and those of us who've been burned keep sticking our fingers in the fire, over and over again." Over and over and over. Jo

the Chilean psychiatrist and brilliant thinker Claudio Naranjo, said about music, "Only repetition invites spontaneous innovation," and of course this is true of all the arts. You

Burnout…occurs because we're trying to solve the same problem over and over.

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.

This happens all the time," he said. "You know what I'm saying?" "What happens? "Murder." I was silent. "That's the thing about it. It never stops. Never.

Relentless repetition was usually needed when dealing with alcohol and idiots.

Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Es como un juego, repetitivo, incluso algo tedioso después de más de veinte años. Aun así, sé que hay juegos mucho peores.

Oh, ahora no. Ahora estamos en ese dulce periodo en el que todos están de acuerdo en no repetir los recientes horrores. Sin embargo, esta coincidencia colectiva no suele durar. Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción. Pero ¿quién sabe? Quizá esta vez sea la buena, Katniss.

Pour l'instant nous sommes dans cette période bénie où chacun s'accorde à reconnaître que les horreurs récentes ne devraient jamais se répéter. Mais la mémoire collective est généralement de courte durée. Nous sommes des êtres versatiles, stupides, amnésiques et doués d'un immense talent d'autodestruction.

C'est comme un jeu. Répétitif. Un peu lassant, même, après plus de vingt ans. Mais j'ai connu des jeux bien pires.

Oh, not now. Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.

He said that some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

Wouldn't you want to know so that you don't make the same mistakes again?' Realm laughs, sounding bitter. 'That's the great thing, James Murphy. Some mistakes are destined to repeat themselves.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.