Quotes About Repetition

The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

Lightning doesn't strike twice.

And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalist had nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already.

The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth.

In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.

Be repetitive and concrete. The things you say over and over have the most impact if they specify what to do and when to do it.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

In recounting his first crime, the serial killer, Ted Bundy, recalled that he felt disgusted with what he had done. Ramirez may have experienced similar emotional turmoil – at first. Then he likely revisited the crime in his mind, reliving the rape and murder over and over again.

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.

The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge, cold slits the same crease in the finger, the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.

It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.

Budete-li opakovat otázku po n?kolik dní nebo týdn?, hypocampus nebude mít jinou možnost, než ji vy?ídit. Bude to jeho vlastním zp?sobem, podle jeho ?asového harmonogramu, ale váš mozek za?ne dodávat pot?ebné odpov?di.

The repetition of "serious" emotion is, in fact, a favorite comic device.

grates. As he worked, he was reminded of the myth of Sisyphus and the cruel king's terrible fate. No sooner had Kim cleared an area of its filth than it became refouled with a fresh

The sages taught me that on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

Los sabios me enseñaron que en un día normal la persona normal tiene unos sesenta mil pensamientos. Lo que a mí me chocó, sin embargo, fue que el 99 por ciento de los mismos era exactamente igual que el día anterior.

On an average day, the average person thinks about 60,000 thoughts. Even more startling is the fact that 95% of those thoughts are the same as the ones you thought the day before.

Julian added: "The sages taught me that on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through his mind. What really amazed me, though, was that ninety-five percent of those thoughts were the same as the ones you thought the day before!

Only once, I told them. It had happened only once. That was true. But it came back more than once, after that first time. Whatever it was. The Drop. That was what I named it. —The Drop? Rachel would ask. Always at night. Always lying down. Only in the loft. Only in those two years. She liked the name. It did the trick, caged it, made it comical.

Things never look better in the morning. How could they, when nothing ever changes?

That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.