Repetition Quotes
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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. (Quote by - Jeff Vandermeer)
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My greatest fear: repetition. (Quote by - Max Frisch)
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. (Quote by - Walter Lippman)
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. (Quote by - Nathaniel Cotton)
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. (Quote by - Bill Laswell)
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. (Quote by - Simon Wiesenthal)
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. (Quote by - Reggie Jackson)
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. (Quote by - John Grierson )
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. (Quote by - Jane Fonda)
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. (Quote by - Terry Riley)
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. (Quote by - Terry Riley)
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. (Quote by - Nile Rodgers)
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. (Quote by - Dawn Powell)
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. (Quote by - George Eliot)
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. (Quote by - Elizabeth Arden)
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. (Quote by - Archer J. P. Martin)
Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. (Quote by - Ivor Novello)
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. (Quote by - Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Constant repetition carries conviction. (Quote by - Robert Collier)
Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity. (Quote by - Ikue Mori)
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp )
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. (Quote by - Paul Muldoon)
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt. (Quote by - Marton Csokas)
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. (Quote by - Ralph A. Cram)
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. (Quote by - Terry Riley)
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life. (Quote by - Peter Cushing)
Happiness is the longing for repetition. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. (Quote by - Willie Tyler)
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. (Quote by - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. (Quote by - Baroness Edith Summerskill)
Filming is repetition and many takes. (Quote by - Max von Sydow)
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. (Quote by - Fiona Shaw)
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. (Quote by - William Safire)
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show. (Quote by - Rick Allen)
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. (Quote by - Israel Zangwill)
To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. (Quote by - Jim Garrison)
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. (Quote by - Lascelles Abercrombie)
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. (Quote by - Hermann Ebbinghaus)
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. (Quote by - Norman Lear)
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over. (Quote by - Graham Nelson)
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition. (Quote by - Harry Shearer)
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition. (Quote by - Ornette Coleman)
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. (Quote by - Don DeLillo)
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. (Quote by - Liu Binyan)
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody. (Quote by - Colin Greenwood)
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. (Quote by - Kate Millett)
Past: Our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition. (Quote by - Israel Zangwill)
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
