Quotes About Repetition

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Fine, he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

puppies repeat behavior that wins them attention — they don't care whether the interaction is negative or positive.

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves —" "I'm going to

FEE, FI-- Magnus begins. Oh wait, I already said that, he adds.

History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.

I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the worst rhythm there is. The repetition of a man's bad self, that's the worst suffering that's ever been known.

The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.

what are the generations for, please explain to me? Only to repeat fear and desire without a change? This cannot be what the thing is for, over and over and over. Any good man will try to break the cycle.

A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts... On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.

that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.

A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore

If some people hadn't felt obliged to repeat what is untrue simply because they had at one point maintained it, they would have turned into quite different people.

Overly informed, one creates under too much influence, too much anxiety. Without education, one risks mistaking originality for repetition, reinventing solutions to problems many times resolved in the past ["Tradition," Quarry West , #32].

There is no last page to the poetry of John Ashbery. You will have had the experience; you can always have it again.

It's the lies we tell ourselves that make us repetitive.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body.

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping — rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas — But, goodness, why need they do it?