Quotes About Repetition

It was called 'the Big Lie' technique, Johnny. Just sound like you know what you're talking about—as if you're citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory and repeat your assertions over and over again. Those who want an excuse to hate or blame—those with big but weak egos—will leap at a simple, neat explanation for the way the world is. Those types will never call you on the facts.

In the Ebbinghaus curve, or forgetting curve, R stands for memory retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time. The power of a memory can be built through repetition, but it is the memory we are recalling when we speak, not the event. And stories are annealed in the telling, edited by turns each time they are recalled...People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.

Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.

The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.

La Broma Infinita / D. F. Wallace

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

The rain, it raineth every day.

small bathroom she drew on her nightdress again in order

Your repetition can be intentional. You can use the same anchor phrase freshly each time, renewed by focusing on your underlying intention— the deeper Yes that lies within you. You can also humanize the repetition with a smile or acknowledgment.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

the United States, allowed conditions to be gradually built up which led to the very climax they dreaded most. They have only to repeat the same well-meaning, short-sighted behaviour towards the new problems which in singular resemblance confront us to-day to bring about a third convulsion from which none may live to tell the tale.

Those who do not learn from History are condemned to repeat it.

If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.

Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.

Nunca nadie me ha sobornado tanto como la rutina. Todo los días ensayas la misma obra, un día te la aprendes y ahí poco a poquito vas torciéndola a tu gusto. O te la van torciendo a su antojo, que es lo que pasa cuando te la crees.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

We keep going around in circles, but nothing will ever change. I know that our relationship is over, it's almost a relief. Beatrice has won.

Maybe that's what made a memory powerful. Not that it happened once, but that it happened over and over again on the screen of your mind.

and before tomorrow was coming to an end, he knew his mind would already be working in much the same way, yet again, over the day that was to follow.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.