Repetitive Quotes

• Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Kristen Wilson

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

  Paul Hawken

  Stories, Movement

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.13, Penguin

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

  Margaret Mahy

  Situation, Term, Humans

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• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

  Denis Waitley

  Change, Self, Fidgeting

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• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  Fay Weldon

  Practice, Mind, Affirmation

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, 2013.

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Mind, Phrases, Affirmation

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Family, Patterns

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Song, Writing, Hammers

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• The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

  Denis Waitley

  Criticism, Trying, Power Of Positive Thinking

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• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ideas

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.47, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.

  Scott Jurek

  Movement, Body, Demand

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.150, A&C Black

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• Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.110

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• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Years, People, Car

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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• Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Mean, Simple, Leaving

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• Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Self Worth, Order

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• Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.

  Philip Glenister

  Running, Home, Tv Shows

  "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. Janaury 6, 2012.

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• Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

  Anita Renfroe

  Data, Add, Satisfaction

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• Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.

  Tim McCarthy

  Buddhist, Unique, Meditation

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• If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "Readers recommend: songs about games" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2015.

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• My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

  Ana Tijoux

  Kids, Boys, Years

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