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Quotes About Repetition

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
~ Margaret Mitchell
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
~ L Peter Deutsch
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
~ Alan Perlis
The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.
~ Stephen Curry
If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!
~ Grace Hopper
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.
~ Thomas Sowell
I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
~ Xavier Dolan
History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
~ Will Durant
Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.
~ Henny Youngman
Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.
~ Rick Majerus
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
~ Judith Butler
Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.
~ Simone Biles
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
~ Karl Marx
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
~ Dwight Yoakam
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
~ Bobby Fischer
Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
~ Leon Uris
We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.
~ Jan Chozen Bays
I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.
~ Rahul Dravid
Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.
~ Paulo Coelho
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
~ Erik Qualman
It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.
~ Francesco Clemente
I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.
~ Howard Hawks
A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
~ Jimmy Savile