Repeating Quotes

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. (Ambrose Bierce)
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. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
I'm not happy with just repeating myself. View quote
Chris Cleave
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. View quote
David Gilmour
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. View quote
Willa Cather
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. View quote
James Russell Lowell
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. View quote
Charles A. Beard
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. View quote
Mark Twain
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit. View quote
George Eliot
Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one. (Gertrude Stein)
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. - May 24, 2005. View quote
George W. Bush
I am sick of deconstructing their propaganda, because it's pretty much the same as it's always been. It's just repeating something over and over again until we believe it and we hope that you believe it. View quote
Jon Stewart
This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Contrary to the generally accepted theory the will is not the invincible force it is claimed to be; in fact, whenever imagination and will come into conflict it is always imagination that triumphs. Try to do something while you are repeating: "I cannot do it," and you will see this truth confirmed. The mere idea of inability to accomplish a thing paralyzes the will power. View quote
Émile Coué
A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error-a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. View quote
David Brin
A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind. View quote
José Saramago
On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations... It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur .... If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space. (Christopher Alexander)
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it; You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. View quote
Randy Pausch
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating. View quote
Melanie Benjamin
Where's the glory in repeating what others have done? View quote
Rick Riordan
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly. View quote
Gretchen Rubin