Quotes About Repetition

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee

Housework can look like a Sisyphean task that gives you no sense of reward or completion .

The doctor paused and measured his words carefully, scratching and stroking at his wiry broad mustache as if it were a beloved terrier curled under his nose. Matthew wondered what other psychiatrists saw in that repetitive gesture—masturbation? obsession for a long-gone pet?

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

* Monday * Tuesday * Wednesday * Thursday * Friday * I blinked * Monday

Restatement is like marching in place. It does not have forward movement, but it is part of the parade. It is saying the same thing in different words.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they'll believe it and go along with you.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.

you're told a lie often enough, that lie becomes not the truth, but a truth you can come to believe. However

There was a famous philosopher named George Santayana who explained why it's so important to understand history. His words are often quoted. 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' We need to learn from all the things that came before. It's a good thing that we remember the American Civil War—especially when we see politics get heated today.

Love is when repetition stops you in your tracks.

Repeating yourself is brave. Repeating yourself calls attention to what you are saying.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition… Yet change is life's only constant.

I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

I have done this before. In other cities, other nights. So often I can repeat each gesture without owning any of them.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

History never repeats itself, historians do.