Quotes About Repetition

I went through a brief phase years ago of getting Men's Health then I realised there are actually only three ways to do a sit-up and they're just repackaging it endlessly.

I was completely shocked - two Grammy nominations. I've said it out loud to myself about 100 times.

A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.

We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

To wear brown and grey things every day, the same clothes, for months, it's quite boring after a while.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

People are incredible creatures of habit.

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

I've seen 'The Godfather Part II,' 'Broadcast News,' and 'Annie Hall' more than 20 times each.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it, However rudely spoken or unfit, Or else the tale he tells will be untrue, The things invented and the phrases new.

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

that inward repetition of looks, words, and phrases, which makes a large part in the lives of most girls.

Have not men, shut up in solitary imprisonment, found an interest in marking the moments by straight strokes of a certain length on the wall, until the growth of the sum of straight strokes, arranged in triangles, has become a mastering purpose? Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?