Quotes About Repetition

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

Whenever a young person encounters trauma, they react to it and they also repeat it. Modeling has elements of identifying with the aggressor. In modeling, you don't resist the dysfunctional mores of your family—you reenact them. You see yourself as you were seen; you internalize bad behavior as normal.

In Phoenix summer is the title, the refrain, And every other verse.

Winston Churchill said, "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then a third time—a tremendous whack.

Grandma Vera said something I've treasured since: "If you read something often enough, no one can take it away from you." How

Practice them in 25-yard repeats, resting ten to fifteen seconds between.

Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.

Cuando lo concreto se pierde, es reemplazado por los clichés. Por eso debemos dar nuestros testimonios. Por cada recuerdo que se pierde llega un tópico en su lugar. El mundo del cliché es un mundo con amnesia.

There are recurring cycles, ups and downs, but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations. It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.

Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.

Yet it is curious to see how a really truthful man will forget his misses, and his hits at close quarters, and, by dint of constant repetition, will finally persuade himself that he is in the habit of killing his game at three or four hundred yards.

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