Repetition Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

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.

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.

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

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.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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.

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 carries conviction.

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

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

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