Quotes About Repetition

Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a way? I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.

Habit is a great deadener.

Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of The Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: "Ch. LXXII. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island."

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Will sex between humans ever lose its endlessly repeated history?

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

History is cyclic, not repetitive.

Life is like a spiral. You will pass through every stage again and again, experiencing each stage from a higher and higher perspective.

For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching for familiarity and comfort as the brain continues its malicious march forward in decline. One of the ways to respond in addition to being calm and patient is to engage the person in an activity to break the pattern of repetition.

La memoria es una cosa caprichosa. Y a veces, estamos condenados a repetir las cosas que hemos olvidado.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.