Top 110 Repetition Quotes

There are some designers who flash and burn – Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don’t think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there’s something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that’s also liberating.

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there’s so much repetition in gospel, it’s like churning butter.

When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you’re speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you’re speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.

Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn’t make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn’t make any difference.

For me, repetition is death.

Repetition makes perfect.

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.

I think just with repetitions and my confidence, I’ll be all right.

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.

There’s so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn’t ever exactly the same.

With ‘Break The Night,’ each verse is saying, ‘Nothing’s going right today; nothing ever does.’ It’s about that kind of repetition, it’s that kind of mantra you can get in your mind when you’re depressed or down, when it’s become like a hamster on a wheel – it’s very difficult to break.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.

It’s natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals’ droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.

At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

A dancer’s life is all about repetition.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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.

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 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.

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

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

If you look at the copies of Churchill’s speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

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

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

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

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

The fact that the 1984 cold war film ‘Red Dawn’ has been remade is more than just another sign of Hollywood declining into pastiche and repetition. It shows that, in a moment of deep capitalist crisis, the Red Peril is back.

People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don’t do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

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

Filming is repetition and many takes.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

I just think repetition and getting the game reps shooting the ball in games really helps, rather than just practicing. You can get game timing.

The way you execute in this league is through repetition, and that’s both offensively and defensively.

I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you’ve told a story and now you’re adding more story to the story.

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.’

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

Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

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

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

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

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

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.

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition – cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Football is all about repetition. The trick for a coach is to be innovative when you ask for it.

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

Many novice writers try to avoid using ‘said’ by substituting synonyms: ‘he uttered,’ ‘she murmured,’ ‘he questioned.’ It’s true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for ‘said’ can be worse than its repetition.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

What I do is I get the sheet music and I put it out for myself and then I use a visual tuner to go through each note individually. And every time I make a mistake, I start the song over again, so I use the muscle memory of intervals and then watching that tuner, and then a lot of repetition.

Pick a theme for your material, and stick to it for the entirety of the piece. The repetition of certain key phrases, however irritating they may sound, will give your set rhythm, and the illusion of structure.