Quotes About Repetition

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.

E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

And if only it would stop, shut itself up for good- this off-key 'if only' that goes on singing, like some deranged child, repeating.

People lie and cheat whenever and wherever there are opportunities. And from these opportunities supervenes recidivism.

There is greed in questioning if you keep on asking the same question.

Great escape read, yet always come back again and again

Curious how people can go on doing the same thing day after day!

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Repetition of false teachings does not make them true.

There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing.

I do have a bad habit," he says. "of falling in love. With regularity and to spectacular effect. You see, it never goes well.

Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

I don't know why I stay. I don't know why I deserve this. I don't know why you do this, why we do this, why this keeps happening.

I will leave you if you ever do that again," she said after the first time, and she was deadly serious, my God she was serious. She knew exactly how she was meant to behave in a situation like this. The boys were only eight months old. Perry cried. She cried. He promised. He swore on his children's lives. He was heartbroken. He bought her the first piece of jewelry she would never wear. A week after the twins had their second birthday, it happened again. Worse than the first time.

But each time she didn't leave, she gave him tacit permission to do it again.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.