Repetition Quotes - page 2

Constant repetition carries conviction. (Robert Collier)
The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don't think about it. View quote
John Wooden
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
If the object of all human investigation were but to produce in cognition a reflection of the world as it exists, of what value would be all its labor and pains, which could result only in vain repetition, in an imitation within the soul of that which exists without it? View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. View quote
Sigmund Freud
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. View quote
Milan Kundera
Every movement in the market is the result of a natural law and of a Cause which exists long before the Effect takes place and can be determined years in advance. The future is but a repetition of the past, as the Bible plainly states. View quote
William Delbert Gann
I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition. (Walter Hill)
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law - in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again. View quote
James Surowiecki
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
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. View quote
Jacques Pepin
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. View quote
Kate Millett
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. View quote
Peter Cushing
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution. View quote
Bill Drayton
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. View quote
Bill Laswell
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.' View quote
Bryan Volpenhein
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice. (Bela Karolyi)
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. View quote
Charles Jencks
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. View quote
Dick Wolf
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. View quote
Fiona Shaw
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. View quote
Harry Shearer