Quotes about Repetition

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

Emergency - Phase - Repetition

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

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.

Absurd - Growing - Illness - Madness - Repetition - Struggle - Tasks - World

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.

Breathing - Care - Certainty - Feelings - Force - Influence - Kindness - Meaning - Remembering - Repetition - Spelling - Taste - Thinking

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John Dewey

Philosopher, Psychologist, Educational Reformer

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

Familiarity - Mindset - Overcome - Repetition

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Repetition

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Heroism - Repetition

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

Creativity - Repetition - Wants

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

Lie - Repetition

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

Challenge - Remembering - Repetition

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Norman Vincent Peale

Clergyman, Author

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Actions - Enough - Habit - Repetition

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Boxing - Repetition

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Rajneesh

Guru

This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy because of something. You are simply happy. Happiness is your nature. Unhappiness is something nurtured, you have learned it. Every credit goes to you for all your misery, but for happiness, you cannot have any credit. It is natural. You were born happy. You were happy in your mother's womb.

Belief - Growing - Manifestation - Misery - Mother - Reason - Relaxing - Repetition - Spiritual - Unhappy

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! And not only that, but I say to us all: let us not rob others of hope, let us become bearers of hope!

Repetition

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

People - Playing - Reading - Repetition

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Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Remembering - Repetition

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.

Facts - Giving - Mindset - Order - Repetition - Significance - Spirits

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

Development - Hearing - Past - Practice - Remembering - Repetition

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Failing - Repetition

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

Attachment - Knowledge - Memory - Past - Possibility - Repetition - Uncertainty - Victim

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Danger - Disaster - Repetition - Triumph

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