Best 121 quotes in «repetition quotes» category

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

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

You never want to see kids repeat your own mistakes.

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

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.

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

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

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 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.

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

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

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.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

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

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

Repetition makes reputation.

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

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

Translate goals into practice + repetition = success!

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

With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be remade? Yet someone would, no doubt, attempt to repeat their journey, sooner or later. This thought made them feel they should bet at once very careful and very daring: careful not to make a mistake that would render the repetition impossible; daring, so that the journey would be worth repeating, like an adventure.

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?

Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.

a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

Affirmations are positive statements and they need to be spoken with absolute, unadulterated faith. If you only speak with your mouth, without an iota of feeling in your heart and belief in your mind, then you’re going the wrong way! You need to feel the vibrancy, the truth, and the positivity of these statements. You need to write them on your mind-slate, create an indelible influence, and engrave them in your consciousness. You can only do that by following the Three Golden Rules of Affirmations – Repetition, Belief, and Positive Expectation. Remember, by making affirmations, you are consciously programming your mind to think in a certain way, so that hopeful and happy thinking becomes a part of your being. Affirmations are a way to train the mind; and training happens when you practice, practice, practice! Training requires conscious effort, discipline, belief, and consistency. That is exactly how you need to practice your affirmations.

But it is the repetition, from all walks of life, that slowly destroys, turns the looking-glass into a mirror, distorting or true, both cruel.