Repetitions Quotes

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

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.