Repetition Quotes
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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
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.
Elizabeth Barton
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Eliza Haywood
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the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
Fanny Burney
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It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.
Diane Ackerman
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others
William Graham Sumner
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All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.
Adolf Hitler
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The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
Benjamin Cardozo
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
William Graham Sumner
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Repetition is the mother of skill.
Anthony Robbins
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Reggie Jackson
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
Linda Ronstadt
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Repetition yields constants. Constants create cultures.
Dan T. Cathy
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The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill
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Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
Simon Baker
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Repetition is the mother of all learning.
Dan T. Cathy
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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.
William Lewis Safir
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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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.
Terrence Mitchell Riley