Quotes About Repetition

as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history.

He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.

This pattern of the sickly wife and the autocratic, headstrong husband would be repeated in the life of their son Pierpont.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.

I missed that one,' Henryson said. 'The war, I mean.' 'Don't worry,' Snipes said. 'Another one's always coming down the pike. That's something all your historians and philosophers agree on. A feller over in Germany looks to be ready to set a match to Europe soon enough, and quick as they snuff him out there'll be another to take his place.

And it gets so gloomy and so monotonous. Probably the casino---

Here's my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience's attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them.

A veces tengo la sensación de que uno se mueve en la vida dando siempre vueltas por los mismos lugares

De todos os excessos que um homem pode cometer, o mais repetido por Matías era o do silêncio.

I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated it again and again.

The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again.

The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again. Summer passed and winter thereafter, and came and passed again.

If we confine our attention entirely to the slang of the day - that is to say, if we devote ourselves exclusively to modern literature - we get to think the world is progressing when it is only repeating itself...It is only when one reads what men wrote long ago that one realizes how absolutely modern the best of the old things are.

People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A

Wiederholung und Erinnerung sind die gleiche Bewegung, nur in entgegengesetzter Richtung; denn dasjenige, woran man sich erinnert, ist gewesen, wird rückwärts wiederholt, während die eigentliche Wiederholung eine Erinnerung in vorwärtiger Richtung ist.

proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.

So it's you again; well, why not? Nothing ever seems to go away.

True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough times to make it as good as true.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

The secret to my success is practice!

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.