Quotes About Repetition

Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em—tell 'em—then tell 'em what you told 'em.

Everything is practice.

There was always a woman with TB in Remarque's books. Frankly I was a little fed up with it.

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of Man!

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.

If I am a bit repetitive at times about issues like shrinking the critic and grieving the losses of childhood, it is my attempt to find different ways to emphasize the great importance of engaging these themes of recovery work over and over again. If you find yourself lost and not sure of how to get back onto the map, these themes will always be key portals for reentry.

And over and over she told him she loved him. And over and over he told her he loved her. And it was always a new thing that they told each other.

two of the primary learning principles in the book: spaced repetition of key ideas, and the interleaving of different but related topics.

Knowledge, skills, and experiences that are vivid and hold significance, and those that are periodically practiced, stay with us.

People commonly believe that if you expose yourself to something enough times—say, a textbook passage or a set of terms from an eighth grade biology class—you can burn it into memory. Not so.

We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.

Everything still revolves around memorization and repetition, the old cornerstones of Chinese education.

Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,