Best 121 quotes in «repetition quotes» category

Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.

Truth is unoriginal.

Val was eating cornflakes. She ate very little else, at home. They were light, they were pleasant, they were comforting, and then after a day or two they were like cotton wool.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

We cannot recall our dreams, they cannot come back to us. If a dream comes – but what sort of coming is a dream's? Through what night does it make its way? If it comes to us, it does so only by way of forgetfulness, a forgetfulness which is not only censorship or simply repression. We dream without memory, in such a way that the dream of any particular night is no doubt a fragment of a response to an immemorial dying, barred by desire’s repetitiousness. There is no stop, there is no interval between dreaming and waking. In this sense, it is possible to say: never, dreamer, can you awake (nor, for that matter, are you able to be addressed thus, summoned). The dream is without end, waking is without beginning; neither one nor the other ever reaches itself. Only dialectical language relates them to each other in view of a truth.

When I prepare, then I become pregnant... and then I produce. When I produce, then I praise the Lord... and then I become prosperous and then the cycle repeats!

We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.

We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heath, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.

You are likely to keep repeating the same mistake all over again if you do not agree it’s a mistake.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

When you continuously give attention to a positive thought, it becomes a dominant thought. Repeating this thought will become a bigger part of your vibration.

Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir--or Sewer--Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.

You never want to see kids repeat your own mistakes.

You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.

You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.

Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

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

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself in a situation where our band Swans is doing typical chord progressions - it just seems cliché to me. Even changing chords sounds like a cliché sometimes, though it happens occasionally in our music. But you find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

Repetition makes reputation.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

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

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

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.

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

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

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.