Quotes About Repetition

TOMORROW ALWAYS LOOKS THE SAME! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.

Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. How many Homers vanished? How many Hesiods? What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? Languages, prayers, dreams, habits, and hopes—all gone. And not just once, but over and over again.

When you speak what you believe, you believe what you speak. The more you believe it, the more you say it. The more you say it, the more you believe it. That image is perfected in you. The more it comes and goes through that cycle, the stronger it becomes in you.

When you are coaching you must understand that success is the result of behavior, which is determined by attitudes, which are formed by conditioning, which takes place through repetition.

I'm possessed, recursively.

Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.

The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives lies and mythical narratives the aura of uncontested truth. We become trapped in the linguistic prison of incessant repetition. We are fed words and phrases like war on terror or pro-life or change, and within these narrow parameters, all complex thought, ambiguity, and self-criticism vanish.

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Moms are always looking for content that's clean and fun - and that you don't mind watching over and over.

As an actor it somehow gets monotonous to play the same role again and again. But I can't say no to them as I earn my bread and butter from this.

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.

The more people are exposed to the same thing, the more it seems acceptable.

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Events of future history will be of the same nature - or nearly so - as the history of the past, so long as men are men.