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Quotes About Repetition

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
~ Tryon Edwards
Winter glanced over at Moon, for the nine thousandth time that day,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Where had he heard that before?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Oh, what is that bird?' 'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times.
~ Patrick O'Brian
What I meant was that if he could induce others to believe what he said, then for him the statement acquired some degree of truth, a reflection of their belief that it was true; and this reflected truth might grow stronger with time and repetition until it became conviction, indistinguishable from ordinary factual truth, or very nearly so.
~ Patrick O'Brian
expressed myself badly. What I meant was that if he could induce others to believe what he said, then for him the statement acquired some degree of truth, a reflection of their belief that it was true; and this reflected truth might grow stronger with time and repetition until it became conviction, indistinguishable from ordinary factual truth, or very nearly so.
~ Patrick O'Brian
You must also understand that with muscle memory, at least two to three thousand repetitions are necessary to help master a simple skill.
~ Unknown
As noted earlier, current theory states that it takes two thousand to three thousand repetitions to master a physical act or develop physical "muscle memory." I believe it takes an equal amount of "mental muscle memory" to ingrain a thought process or act.
~ Unknown
I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion, of being again committed to a tragic course of action, having learned nothing from that other time or those other times
~ Paul Scott
The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés.
~ Paul Zindel
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
~ Paulo Coelho
And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
~ Paulo Coelho
Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.
~ Paulo Coelho
if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone
~ Paulo Coelho
I am tired of days that are all the same.
~ Paulo Coelho
Todo lo que sucede una vez puede que no suceda nunca más. Pero todo lo que sucede dos veces, sucederá, ciertamente, una tercera.»
~ Paulo Coelho
the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it will continue to happen until the end of time, or
~ Paulo Coelho
To build a superman, slow movements and quick lifts are required… I have a fondness for two particular lifts. The two hands snatch and the bent press. The two hands snatch… is the best single exercise in existence when practiced as a repetition movement in various forms [read the one-arm snatch —P.T.]. The bent press brings into play every muscle of your physique and builds superstrength through all the body.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
The total number of sets is up to you, anywhere from three to as many as twenty sets per exercise are acceptable but should be varied.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline