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Quotes About Repetition

In order to be able to infer that "A causes B," we need to be able to run the experiment many times.
~ Duncan J. Watts
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
~ Charles J. Givens
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
~ V. S. Naipaul
All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.
~ Ann Petry
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.
~ Iggy Pop
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
~ Michael Landon
With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.
~ Tony Robbins
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
~ Stephen King
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty
~ Derren Brown
Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.
~ Lyall Watson
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
~ Roland Barthes
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
~ Joe Queenan
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~ Albert Einstein
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
~ Jacqueline Carey
We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
I love to swim for miles I could just go back and forth.
~ Jill Clayburgh
Never explain anything. "The more you have to explain," Whitaker said, "the more difficult it is to win support." Say the same thing over and over again. "We assume we have to get a voter's attention seven times to make a sale," Whitaker said. Subtlety is your enemy. "Words that lean on the mind are no good," according to Baxter.
~ Jill Lepore
Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.
~ Jim Benton
The responses were the same, sometimes almost word for word with what he had said earlier. As it continued, officers appeared on the far side of the glass partition and Fritz stopped, sometimes turning to the federal men—"You
~ Jim Bishop
The Illusion Model The illusion model accurately describes the process of an individual becoming part of a psychological crowd after he has a position on. (1) Affirmation (2) Repetition (3) Prestige (4) Contagion
~ Jim Paul
I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that magic?)
~ Jo Walton