Quotes About Repetition

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

We did a good job and I'm just glad I have it for a second time.

If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

Tengo quince años y medio, en ese país las estaciones no existen, vivimos en una estación única, cálida, monótona, nos hallamos en la larga zona cálida de la tierra, no hay primavera, no hay renovación

También conseguimos engañar a nuestra memoria. A fuerza de repetirnos lo que hubiéramos debido hacer, termina por parecernos imposible no haberlo hecho.

Zrobimy to, co zawsze robiÄ™ w takich sytuacjach, co robiÅ'em ju? sto razy, co automatycznie robi ka?dy, kto naprawdÄ™ zna góry. – To znaczy? – KatapultÄ™.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any given second is a full field of colour patches scattered just so. The configuration will never be repeated.

What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way.