Quotes About Repetition

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

When I tell a child something the first time, I'm nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

For Mothers Day, we always gave mom a perfume and on Fathers Day, we gave dad a pen. Funnily, every year, we used to steal it from their drawer and give it back every year.

The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he is speaking. The whole process must be generated over again as a fresh, original experience.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

After watching what has happened over the past fifty years in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and seeing the money that is to be made from such ventures, I wonder if the adage should have a corollary: 'Those who understand the lessons of history are only too happy to repeat them.

For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called . . . policy.

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.

For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behaviour is called...policy.

Habits and practice are very interrelated. What we practice will become a habit.

One study states that repeating a particular motion sixty times a day over twenty-one days will form a new habit that will become ingrained in your mind.

One may dream the same dream at intervals for years, and in each case it is an unconscious action, but if in his dream he recalls that he has had this dream before, and recognizes what is coming next, or remembers that it is different from what it was before, there has entered into his dream a factor of conscious thinking.

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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.