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Quotes About Repetition

I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence." -The Sacred Echo
~ Margaret Feinberg
And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself." - The Sacred Echo
~ Margaret Feinberg
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
~ Margaret Laurence
Vane diventano le parole ripetute troppe volte.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.
~ Unknown
Repetition is a key principle in neuroplasticity. It's how we rewire our brains and turn good ideas into permanent new ways of being and behaving.
~ Marie Forleo
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.
~ Jacques Pepin
After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.
~ Goran Ivanisevic
For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
~ Quentin Crisp
Copy and paste is a design error.
~ David Parnas
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
~ George W. Bush
Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.
~ Unknown
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
~ Yogi Berra
As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.
~ Milton Jones
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
~ Jane Fonda
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage
~ Honore de Balzac
I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they're repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.
~ Marina Abramovi?
I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.
~ Marina Abramovic
Lo cierto es que la vida -¡qué indecente resulta nombrarla así, como si fuera una divinidad, como si encerrase una esotérica significación y no fuera lo que todos sabemos que es: una repetición, una aburrida repetición de dilemas, de rostros, de deseos!-, lo cierto es que la vida desde el principio me sacó ventajas y yo no he podido ni podré jamás recuperar el terreno perdido...
~ Mario Benedetti
Los pájaros escapan como amores y como amores vuelven a encontrarnos son sencillos como las soledades y repetidos como los insomnios.
~ Mario Benedetti
Las mentiras machacadas día y noche se vuelven verdades.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa