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• Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Heard, Redundant

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• They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, May, Sin

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• Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Moving, Knowledge

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• The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

  David Foster Wallace

  Keys, Boredom, Sides

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• There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, Medical, Danger

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• I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

  Angel Haze

  Hip Hop, Gone, Hips

  "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.

  Bill Drayton

  Wall, Team, Organization

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• There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.

  Dave McKean

  Beautiful, Jobs, Sex

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• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  Dana Spiotta

  Memories, Dysfunction, Needs

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

  Flann O'Brien

  Shapes, Unbearable, Hell

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest.
  We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.

  William Landay

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press

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• The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

  Bob Fitzsimmons

  Football, Nfl, Brain

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• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

  Cory Doctorow

  Girl, Ebay, Games

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; he has risen with Christ.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Hands, Creative

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Hate, Like Love, Forever

  "Shiloh Fernandez Exclusive Interview RED RIDING HOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 10, 2011.

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• The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

  Will Self

  Way, Fiction, Action

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• Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Basketball, Running, Practice

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, books.google.ru. April 3, 2007.

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• I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
  But there are much worse games to play.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Taken, Years

  "Mockingjay". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2010.

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• That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Trying, Static

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.193, A&C Black

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• Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.

  Otis Chandler

  Expression, Surfing, Special

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• Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Responsibility, Tasks

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