Repetition Quotes

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• 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.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Society
  • Process
  • Repetition

• History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.

  

  Claude Bowers
  • History
  • Past
  • Mistake

• 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.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Change
  • Politics
  • Repetition

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Space
  • Gender
  • Repetition

• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • You
  • Way
  • Repetition

• I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Rap
  • Repetition

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Worry
  • Numbers
  • Repetition

• Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • She
  • True
  • Said

• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Torture
  • Won
  • Housework

• Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Learning
  • Couple
  • Daily

• Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Scary
  • Diversity
  • Evidence

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Repetition
  • Mundane

• I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Think
  • Better
  • Repetition

• My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Career
  • Failure
  • Repetition

• Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

  

  William Osler
  • Long
  • Habit
  • Steady

• Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Thought
  • Same
  • Repetition

• There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.

  

  Wright Morris
  • Something
  • Impression
  • Brushes

• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Happiness
  • Errors
  • Catastrophes

• Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Repetition
  • Addict
  • Alcoholics

• Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Exercise
  • Repetition

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