Quotes About Repetition

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

authoritarian institutions, such as governments and churches, do not use language but jargon, repetitive phrases that are not supposed to have meaning but merely enforce obedience. Language has its own internalizing ethic; it is individualistic and thus threatening to any monolithic system that demands a chorus or litany.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

What a datum! I couldn't help thinking over and over.

Arta este: des?vâr?irea activit??ii noastre - a voi într-un anume fel - potrivit unei idei - a voi ?i a f?ptui e aici acela?i lucru. Numai prin exersarea repetat? a activit??ii noastre, ce devine tot mai precis? ?i mai viguroas?, apare arta.

A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

Oynayal?m albay?m, tekrarlara dü?mekten korkmadan oynayal?m. As?l tekrarlara dü?elim ki, içimizi kemiren ?eytan? her f?rsatta rezil edelim.

Uyand???m zaman kendimi ayn? yerde buldum. (Bu kadar gürültü ç?kard?ktan sonra, hiç olmazsa yerim de?i?ir diye ümit ediyordum.)

To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we've said it And at last to embrace it Because we've defended it And because we cannot admit That we've embraced and defended An obvious lie.

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Constellation, not sequencing, carries truth. This is why travel psychology envisions man in equivalently weighted situations, without trying to lend his life any—even approximate—continuity. Life is made up of situations. There is, of course, a certain inclination toward the repetition of behaviors. This repetition does not, however, mean that we should succumb in our imaginations to the appearance of any sort of consistent whole.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada día, cuando termina el sueño, allí, donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas...

La vita é una tale fatica, bambino. E una guerra che si ripete ogni giorno, e i suoi momenti di gioia sono parentesi brevi che si pagano un prezzo crudele.

just as a brilliant strategy is worthless unless it is implemented, a powerful strategic principle is of no use unless it is communicated effectively. When CEO Jack Welch talks about aligning employees around GE's strategy and values, he emphasizes the need for consistency, simplicity, and repetition.

Another April came to an end, the fifth in succession, and February arrived.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

unavoidable repetition of "family life" (with intergenerational conflicts, sibling rivalry, "primal scene" material, etc.)

monotonous repetition of concepts that, by the same token; also reassure the faculty that nothing new is threatening their

Nothing is stronger than habit.

All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such, is at the heart, for good and evil, of his faculty of reasoning, and thus makes possible his language, his art, his morality, and indeed his humanity. Yet it is the enemy of life, for repetition is itself the principle, not of life but of mechanism.

I'd been on the road for twenty-five years, pretty much. I was like a mouse on a wheel: album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, album, tour.