Quotes about Repetition

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand.

Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

If we say a thing often enough, silently in our hearts or verbally, we will believe it.

Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture. Whoever merely follows the script, merely repeating the past, is culturally impoverished.

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.

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.