Repetition Quotes Page 2

Repetition is the mother of skill.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

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

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.

And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Athletes need to enjoy their training.

They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

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.

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

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.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all.

I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

The exception is more interesting than the rule.

The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Nothing remains intact without effort.

Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.

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.

How much of you is repetition?

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions.

The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.

The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.

I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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.

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.