Repetition Quotations

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

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

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

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.

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

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.

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.

Repetition creates the master.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

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

I hate repetition and I love challenges, and that is why I've jumped from newspapers to magazines to books to television to radio to public speaking.

He just doesn't seem real sure of what he's doing out there right now. Again, it goes back to repetition and knowing how to run our offense. . . . I can't wait for Speedy to get back.

I don't think anybody goes out there not knowing what to do, ... I don't think anybody doesn't know they didn't do it right after it happens. I just think that you are talking about a lot of different multiples and adjustments that have to occur. They happen quickly in the game and I think the more repetition you get on things like that, the more confidence the players gain in their ability to adjust.

I fell in love with dance. It combines the artistry with discipline and the repetition that always appealed to the part of me that craves structure. It was a perfect match for what I wanted to be.

Buffalo earned their repetition off what they did last year,

We look forward to knowing the results of that investigation. The United States has every intention of living up to the letter of our recent agreement in regard to beef imports into Japan and we will work closely with the appropriate authorities here in Japan and in the United States to ensure there is no repetition of this mistake.

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Terrorism remains the No. 1 problem in the United States today. It is not a matter of attaching blame, it is a matter of correcting any errors so that we don't have a repetition of 9/11. If there is intelligence available, it ought to be shared.

Like the city of Venice, everything has been said about August Wilson, but what demands repetition is that he's arguably the finest playwright of the second half of the last century. And that with Lorraine Hansberry, he is responsible for making the real black experience part of the American consciousness.

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

Repetition is your best friend. The more you do something, the better.

Overall, we just need to get the girls to hit a ton of balls. The greater the repetition we can get, the more consistency we'll get. It will improve our competitiveness.

Our goal is to have top- notch performers with top- notch music, not here-today- gone-tomorrow musicians. How long can we take the repetition of what's popular right now? What makes great music possible is the songs.

I think we're ready. We have really done a lot of planning for this. We've used repetition to get information out in as many ways as we can think of, because we know it's going to be a long time before everybody hears about it.

The American people are entitled to some answers, ... It is not a matter of attaching blame. It is a matter of correcting errors so that we don't have a repetition of 9/11.

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Repetition doesn't really exist

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

Repetition makes reputation.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

We don't need a repetition of what's happened in the past... clearly that is not where anybody wants to go.

Repetition is the death of magic.

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

I see no evidence of feedbacks from energy prices to wage bargaining, ... The risk, though, is that, without appropriate policy, we could see a repetition of the 70's type dynamic.

I see no evidence of feedbacks from energy prices to wage bargaining. The risk, though, is that, without appropriate policy, we could see a repetition of the '70s-type dynamic.

You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away.

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

Offensively, we're doing some good things. We just need more repetition versus defenses. We just haven't got the experience yet. The kids are working as hard as they possibly can, but there is no substitute for game experience. We've got to get that, and that will start Friday night.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

Our earlier stuff was a lot of short songs that were super complicated. Nothing ever repeated. It was one roller coaster after another. We felt like we kind of did that enough ... we wanted to focus on repetition and the things that we chose to repeat.

Instead, we want to draw lessons from history and be forward-looking, ... only by remembering the past and drawing lessons from it can one avoid the repetition of historical tragedies.

In this busy age of fear and anxiety, the remembrance of God and repetition of His name is the one means of liberation that is accessible to all. 

At first, I don't even know if he knew what two plus two was. He was really lost out there. And now with repetition and experience out there on the football field, you can tell he's really settled down and he knows what's going on now.

The best of show was the bowl of fruit painted from above, so there was a strong interest in that. There was repetition of design ...

Conditioning is a big part from the goaltender perspective. It's also repetition and facing as many shots as he can. He did a good job of that (last) summer, getting himself more confidence. When you haven't played that much, that's what it comes down to is a little bit of confidence and he's done a really good job from that standpoint.

It's probably going to take a little bit longer until they get up the learning curve and the repetition of using the new system.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

After I do those three, then I will do about 30 seconds where they repeat the three exercises and then back down again. It gives them repetition and a little bit of fitness included.

After four years, we are still trying to find our footing here, ... But we are committed to a high-level of programming and not just a repetition of masterpieces.

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

The heart of man, which is now allowed to lie fallow, has to be ploughed by spiritual exercises like repetition of GOD's name.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

That makes me happy and gives us something to look forward to down the line. Baseball's a game that needs players to have repetition before they can get better and a lot of these kids are starting from step one.

That's one thing we've been working at. We started the year pretty weak at the free-throw line. Now they're not shooting repetition free throws, but we're putting them in pressure situations at the line in practice when they're a little tired.

The report is just a repetition of the allegations of opposition politicians, and I don't see very much research.

We got a lot of repetition in. It was great work, especially for our young players. ... We are still working to build our depth, and that provided us with a lot of insight about our players today.

There'll be an adjustment for Steven because this is an offense that he hasn't done. But again, once we get him in, we'll go over it every single day with him just to try to get him as comfortable as possible. ... I don't think it'll take him real long because one thing that we do a lot of is repetition on our offense.

They're both very fragmented, ... You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance.

They're both very fragmented. You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, 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.

All poetry comes from repetition.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Filming is repetition and many takes

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

The kind of irregularities that took place do not call for a repetition of elections. Only if the irregularities affect the results of the elections will there be a need for repetition.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

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

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.