Repetition famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
-- Bill Drayton -
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Â Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
-- Bruce Lee -
There is no substitute for attentive repetition.
-- Daniel Coyle -
Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.
-- David Cottrell -
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
-- Denis Waitley -
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.
-- Edwin Lefevre -
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...
-- Eliza Haywood -
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.
-- F.B. Meyer -
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
-- Fanny Burney -
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.
-- Fiona Shaw -
Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
-- Gertrude Stein -
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
-- Gertrude Stein -
My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.
-- Guido Molinari -
Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.
-- Harold Bloom -
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.
-- Hermann Ebbinghaus -
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
-- Jane Jacobs -
I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.
-- Janine Antoni -
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.
-- Joan Robinson -
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.
-- John Wooden -
Translate goals into practice + repetition = success!
-- Keith Ferrazzi -
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
-- M. C. Escher -
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
-- Michael Schudson -
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
-- Michelangelo Antonioni -
Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage
-- Napoleon Hill -
There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
-- Nell Zink -
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language
-- Paul Muldoon -
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
-- Pauline Kael -
Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
-- Siri Hustvedt -
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
-- Steven Levenkron -
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
-- Takeshi Kitano -
If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.
-- Tariq Ramadan -
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
-- William Graham Sumner -
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
-- William Safire -
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in ***** is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.
-- Annette Messager -
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.
-- Philip Gerard -
I loved repetition. Every time I turned on a light I knew what would happen. When I flipped the switch, the light went on. It gave me a wonderful feeling of security because it was exactly the same each time.
-- Sean Barron -
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
-- Ernst Haas
