Repetition Quotes

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Fear,the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition ofacts of courage

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learnedthat 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.

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

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.

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

What can I but enumerate old themes?

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

This act is an ancient tale new told;And, in the last repeating, troublesome,Being urged at a time unseasonable.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

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

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.