Repetition Quotes

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

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.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

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

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

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.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

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

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.

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.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

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

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

My greatest fear: repetition.

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

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.