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Quotes About Repetition

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?
~ Audrey Regan
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
~ Augusten Burroughs
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.
~ Socrates
Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.
~ Jay-Z
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.
~ Amy Chua
Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
~ A. E. Housman
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
~ Florence Nightingale
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.
~ Mary Russell Mitford
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
~ Unknown
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.
~ Trevanian
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.
~ Kathy Reichs
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
~ Seth Godin
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.
~ Unknown
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.
~ Ned Rorem
Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.
~ Louise Hay
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
~ Takeshi Kitano
Stupidity it is when an individual takes their precious time to repeat the same wrong things again and again intentionally.
~ Unknown
If someone keeps doing the SAME disrespectful thing over and over again it's obvious that they're not going to change.
~ Unknown
That moment when you wake up with a hang over and say I'm not drinking anymore...until the following weekend approaches.
~ Unknown
You can't call it a mistake, when you do it over and over again.
~ Unknown