Quotes About Repetition

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

If something happens for one season, for me, it is a coincidence. Twice, we can start talking about it.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.

It's very complicated because I cannot wear the same thing too often.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

I don't see the point of having a favorite sari or a favorite outfit if I know that I won't repeat it. I'm glad Kate Middleton has been repeating her outfits and talking about sustainable fashion. Celebrities must set an example and repeat their clothes.

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.

All my bloody pants look the same; all my sweaters look the same. The shirts change; they're all blue.

I watch the same cartoons over and over again. I watch Adult Swim. I watch 'Futurama' repeatedly.

What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the 'new' ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up.

I know I have a good swing. It's a matter of repeating it.

When you do a different city every night, it's easy to repeat things. There are songs you want to play for people and get excited about so you don't always switch things up.

I hate moaning comics, but I do find it very frustrating when I switch on BBC Four or BBC Two to find they're repeating some piece of crap sitcom. I think: Why don't they show mine? Not because I'd make any money, it would just be nice for it to be shown.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

The children repeat the crimes of their fathers precisely because they believe they are morally superior to them. This false difference is already the mimetic illusion of modern individualism, which represents the greatest resistance to the mimetic truth that is re-enacted again and again in human relations. The paradox is that the resistance itself brings about the reenactment. PILATE

Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.