Quotes
Quotes about Repetition
The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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.
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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.
Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it).
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
