Quotes About Repetition

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

A.S.," Brüks repeated. "What's it stand for?" "Artificial Stupidity.

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

In any case, I like to repeat his name to myself in secret. I like to write it on scraps of paper. I am stupidly sentimental: that hasn't changed much.

C'est très bizarre les noms. Parfois on ne connaît rien d'eux et on les dit sans cesse.

A quanto pare, tutta la storia umana non fa altro che ripeterci una cosa: è solo ciò che è stato.

Although shooting action-packed movies is a physically hard job and I repeat movements over and over, those action scenes alone, regardless of rest of the story, gives visual pleasure to viewers. They also give some satisfaction to me as an actor.

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

It's very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, 'Oh yeah, I can do it over and over. I can sing at the top of my range for this whole song.' But when you're doing it every night on the road, it's pretty intense.

When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.