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.
Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do.
I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that’s how you make things happen in your life. It’s the same thing in faith.
Repetition every day. That’s something the great ones do is never get complacent.
You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away.
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.
Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
Starting a business is similar to an athletic endeavor, like serving a tennis ball. Telling you how to do it is useless. You actually get better through a combination of practice, coaching, and repetitions with money on the line.
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
You don’t have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don’t have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of ergonomic designis to create an alignment between the user’s limits, the thing you’re designing, and how people will ideally use that thing.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
When I’m driving the race track, it’s all about repetition.
People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
I think hitting’s just repetition. The more you hit, the better you’re gonna get.
I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven’t had great experiences working in the theatre.
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
So much in design is presented as a big miracle when it’s just a repetition of what’s been happening for 80 years.
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.
I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.
I’ll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don’t have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it’s OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, ‘What makes a hit song? He said, ‘Repetition.’
Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
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.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there’s always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
To those who don’t want the truth about Kennedy’s assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
The repetition of the victimhood narrative is really poisonous for young people because they hear it and believe it.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they’re not imposed, somehow, on the language.
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.
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants. For most of us it’s both – and a lot more complicated.
I’d say there’s more of a difference between a play and movie to TV than there is between TV and movies. But there’s something involved in the repetition of things that require something different from me in order to sign onto a script.
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.
You learn to respect team chemistry. It’s the fourth quarter, there’s two minutes left, the shot clock is winding down, and we’re like, ‘What do we do?’ We didn’t have that flow. Chemistry comes down to repetition. It’s not, ‘We’ve played some games; we have chemistry now.’
A long time ago, I watched President Reagan repeat a few simple points about the benefits for everyone of lower taxes, light regulations, and limited government. Successful policies are sold by repetition, not unrelated tangents.
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.
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
The slogan ‘Never Again!’ that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.
We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
If you stop doing a skill you’ve done for years for any period of time, there’s an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won’t work as fast, because repetition is everything.
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn’t go in the order we perceive it. There are… repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.
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.
My greatest fear: repetition.
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape – almost fractal.
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that’s physical, that’s about a beat and bass and repetition.
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
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