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Quotes About Repetition

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
~ Alex Haley
Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; what once happened can happen always.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season." - John Wooden
~ Swen Nater
First, demonstrate what you want. Second, allow the person learning to imitate with the trainer coaching until perfect execution is achieved. Last, build repetition until it becomes second nature.
~ Swen Nater
You have to plant doubt […] It's like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That's what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.
~ Sybil Claiborne
Ka?dy element tego treningu opiera? si? na ?wiczeniach wielostawowych wykonywane w wi?kszej liczbie powtórze? zapewniaj? ci niepowtarzalne uczucie, jakby kto? zmieni? ci serce na wibruj?c? ubijaczk? do jaj.
~ T.J. Murphy
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.
~ T.S. Eliot
It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.
~ Tadahiko Nagao
But in all that suffering, the most painful suffering of all was the consciousness that it was banal, had all been discovered a long time ago, and was known to all the generations past, all just a repeated series, stamped out by our genes, That the universe was filled to its edges groans as alike as two notes, that those particular groans formed one great groan similar to the shrill parliament of the sparrows and that groan became an interstellar roar, the inaudible groan of the aging cosmos.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
~ Tahereh
In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
I think that it's a space that there are a lot of projections onto—the soon-to-be sexualized and already-sexualized young woman. There are so many outside perceptions grafted onto her, that she feels all at once completely blank and completely full. I noticed that a lot in your book, as well, this repetition of a shallowness. But there is also depth in the constant repetition of this shallowness.
~ Tamara Faith Berger
My house has one integral living space and I am sitting on the couch facing the TV, while she is perched on a stool at the breakfast bar in the kitchen, my laptop open in front of her. We have adopted these same positions so many times over the years, it's like we have worn a groove in time. I imagine us suspended here for ever, like tiny figures in a doll's house.
~ Tammy Cohen
That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would've been sad about us, sad for us, only they'd heard it all so many thousand times before.
~ Tana French
It has taken years and years, starting early in childhood, for the emotional brain to acquire its repertoire of habit. Schemas like perfectionism and deprivation become ingrained through innumerable repeated episodes. It naturally takes time to undo these emotional habits and to master a healthier response.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
The more often we repeat a mental pattern, the more likely it becomes in the future;
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
get to a point where we've observed our mind long enough to become more aware of its repetitive cycles, playing the same tapes over and over, in endless variations.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
As Aristotle said, long before Christ, a people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is obvious that we are repeating it today.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place
~ Taylor Swift
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
~ Charles Portis
I've had a huge career of killing off characters. Low attention span. Done that, that works, done. I can't get out of bed if I've got to do the same thing over and over again.
~ Harry Enfield
That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
~ Sessue Hayakawa
There's something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You're so acquainted with every part of it.
~ Adrianne Lenker
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
~ Walter Gropius