#Repetition Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“It's like deja-vu, all over again.”

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

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

“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.”

“Repetition is the mother of skill.”

“What can I but enumerate old themes?”

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.”

“If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.”

“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.”

“History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.”

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

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

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

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

“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”

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

“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.”

“The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again”

“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.”

“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.”

“Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.”

“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”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.”

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

“If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear”