Quotes About Repetition

The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years!

History is a wheel. This sort of world can't go on for ever either.

But I was stuck in my Groundhog year, waking up every morning to the same gray reality of copping to feel right. I went on another horrible heroin run with Kim and stopped being productive. I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively—everything was fading out. Sometimes doing heroin was nice and dreamy and euphoric and carefree, almost romantic-feeling. In reality, I was dying and couldn't quite see that from being so deep in my own forest.

Everyone knows the manner in which some specific name will recur several times in quick succession from different quarters; part of that inexplicable magic throughout life that makes us suddenly think of someone before turning a street corner and meeting him, or her, face to face. In the same way, you may be struck, reading a book, by some obscure passage or lines of verse, quoted again, quite unexpectedly, twenty-four hours later.

Any pattern of emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate.

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Bir deneyimi tekrar canland?rd?kça, onu tekrar kullanma olas?l???n?z artar.

Bir deneyimi tekrar canland?rd?kça, onu tekrar kullanma olas?l???n?z artar. -S?n?rs?z Güç

As Mark Twain says, "History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice.

It says yes, in blue, in foam, in a gallop. It says no, then no. It cannot be still. My name is sea, it repeats, striking a stone but not convincing it. Then with the seven green tongues, of seven green tigers, of seven green seas, it caresses it, kisses it, wets it, and pounds on its chest, repeating its own name.

John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness.

marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. DJ

Wir sind das, was wir wiederholt tun.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Eentonigheid is een vorm van zekerheid, met eentonigheid kun je angst bezweren.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur." As

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe; that was almost an article of faith among scientists.

But economical Mother Nature was always repeating herself, on such vastly different scales as the swirl of milk stirred into coffee, the cloud lanes of a cyclonic storm, the arms of a spiral nebula.

La Historia nunca se repite… pero las situaciones históricas vuelven a ocurrir.»

Ésa era la respuesta formal; después de escucharla con tanta frecuencia, perdía todo sentido, reducida a una secuencia de sonidos sin significado especial.