Quotes About Repetition

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

The hiccup at this stage is that change involves the loss of the old and the anxiety of the new. Although often maddening for friends and partners to witness, this hamster wheel is part of the process; people need to do the same thing over and over a seemingly ridiculous number of times before they're ready to change.

Repetition compulsion is a formidable beast.

It's not that people want to get hurt again. It's that they want to master a situation in which they felt helpless as children. Freud called this "repetition compulsion." Maybe this time, the unconscious imagines, I can go back and heal that wound from long ago by engaging with somebody familiar—but new. The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.

People want to be understood and to understand, but for most of us, our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

repeated sinful deeds lead to the establishment of sinful habits.

Tómate un tiempo para escuchar las palabras que dices. Si te escuchas decir algo tres veces, escríbelo: se te ha convertido en pauta.

while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

Neuroscientists have a saying: "As the neuron fires, the brain rewires." It means that when you perform a behavior repeatedly, over time, your brain actually changes itself structurally to support that habit. "Plasticity," as it's called, will occur in support of any habit—good or bad.

It turns out that the more you repeat the same action, no matter how reprehensible, the more you can make an excuse for it in your own mind.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

JUST SO YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY SAY "ONCE UPON a time"… they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning? If not me, then who?

Does it even mean anything to him anymore? If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

was starting to see why you carried those stupid facts like other kids dragged around security blankets—if I repeated them over and over, it almost made me feel better.

My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop.

So maybe there is a place in your life you wear out like a rut, or even better, like the soft spot on the couch. And no matter what else happens to you, you come back to that.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Los problemas son simplemente recuerdos del pasado que se repiten para darnos una oportunidad más de ver con los ojos del amor y actuar con inspiración».

One study showed that about 75 percent of parents gave up after five tries, while the research showed it took eight to fifteen times for children to accept a new food as familiar.