Repetition Quotes - Page 4

• Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

  Pina Bausch

  Different, Action, Ends

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• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

  Lawrence Durrell

  History, Historical, Way

  1978 In The Listener, 20 Apr.

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• I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

  Keren Ann

  Believe, I Believe, Enough

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• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  Bill Laswell

  House, Atmosphere, Quality

  "OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music". Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. April 2000.

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• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Education, Culture, Purpose

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

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Ridiculous, Accommodate

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.301, Delphi Classics

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• Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Patience, Persistence, Lifting Weights

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• Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

  George Eliot

  Progress, Literature, Heat

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.186, George Eliot

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Literature, Dies

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.186, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• 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

  Fear, Educational, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

  F.B. Meyer

  Perfect, Finals, Needs

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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• The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Miracle, Doe

  Edward Gibbon (1875). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.263

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• It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Symbolism, Emotion

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

  Nile Rodgers

  Powerful, Real, Numbers

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Slides, Sin, Repentance

  Thomas Jefferson, Maria Hadfield Cosway, John P. Kaminski (1999). “Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Trying, Etc, Technique

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• You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

  Michael Gira

  Sound, Way, Push Yourself

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

  Marton Csokas

  Looks, Sometimes, Painful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Basketball, Team, Successful

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• The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

  William Tyler

  Time, Lightning, Reason

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

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Variation, Happens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

  Bill Drayton

  Begets

  "Bill Drayton’s Five Trends for Social Entrepreneurs" by Eli Malinsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Swings, Littles

  Reggie Jackson, Mike Lupica (1985). “Reggie”, Ballantine Books

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