Quotes About Repetition

Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern. - Clay to Elena

Year after year On the monkey's face A monkey face

If abnormal weather happens every year, it's not very abnormal, is it?

He's like an old clock the won't tell time but won't stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

The days are the same, though, damn it (days that you feel like pages of soft wet sandpaper in your fingers, the silent pliant teeth of time eating away); the summers are the same.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

every time the brain calculates the area of a rectangle, or sight-reads a piece of music, or tests an experimental hypothesis, the neurons involved are chemically changed to make it easier to travel the same path again. Kandel's research seems to have identified that repetition forms the chains that Polanyi called tacit knowing, and that James Watt called "the correct modes of reasoning.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Next identify the key trigger words, that is, words that jump out at you as you scan the book. The author uses them again and again because they represent key facets of the book's theme. In The Einstein Factor, such terms as "Image Streaming," "Squelcher," and "Feedback Loop" will have jumped out at you. Find out precisely what the trigger words mean, and you will understand the book.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Wieder ist ein Jahr vergangen: allmählich wird mir dieser ewigwährende Zyklus ein wenig leid, wozu verschiedene Faktoren, deren Urheber ich in diesem Zusammenhang, um mich keinen Unannehmlichkeiten, deren Folgen, die in Kauf zu nehmen ich, der ich gerne Frieden halte, gezwungen wäre, nicht absehbar wären, auszusetzen, nicht nennen möchte, beitragen.

the essence of kungfu training is improving skills and enhancing force (not merely learning elaborate techniques) — the process of which necessitates practising simple actions over and over again, many, many, many times.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Play it again, Sam!

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.