Repeating Quotes

• Repeating is harder than anything else.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Anything
  • Else
  • Repeating

• Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Avoid
  • Context
  • Repeating

• A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • Time
  • Memory
  • Repeating

• Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Feelings
  • Waves
  • Continue

• Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Mom
  • Ears
  • Repeating

• I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Business
  • Death
  • Burden

• What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Material
  • Expensive
  • Nostalgic

• Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Feelings
  • Waves
  • Continue

• So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Chapter
  • Old Story
  • Book Of Life

• There’s something else that bears repeating here: Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Creativity
  • Controls
  • Pay Attention

• I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Met
  • Repeating

• I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

  

  George Michael
  • Interested
  • Successes
  • Repeating

• ...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.

  

  Elana Dykewomon
  • Sorrow
  • Grieving
  • Build Up

• Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

  

  Jonathan Kellerman
  • Challenge
  • Novel
  • Repeating

• There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Long Time
  • Repeating

• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Air
  • Repeating
  • Human Heads

• My vision was that they should be more ‘English’, so I kept repeating the message in different ways.

  

  Eddie Jones
  • Vision
  • English
  • Message

• History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Price
  • Repeating

• The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Internet
  • Work Hard
  • Repeating

• So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Silence
  • Changed
  • Emptiness

• She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Child
  • Smart
  • Generation

• History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • History
  • Mistakes
  • Circles

• Merely repeating ideas means nothing. You must act—and think—accordingly.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Repeating