Quotes of Repetition - somelinesforyou

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

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ 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. ”

- Florence Scovel Shinn

“ Repetition is the death of art. ”

- Robin Green

“ History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ”

- Lawrence Durrell

“ Constant repetition carries conviction. ”

- Robert Collier

“ Happiness is the longing for repetition. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ”

- Juvenal

“ Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. ”

- Nathaniel Cotton

“ Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ”

- Edith Summerskill

“ Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- James T. McCay

“ You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. ”

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Napolean Hill

“ There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. ”

- Michael Jordan

“ The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. ”

- B. C. Forbes

“ Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. ”

- Jay Leno

“ 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. ”

- George W. Bush

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ My greatest fear: repetition. ”

- Max Frisch

“ Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. ”

- Jack Schwartz

“ Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. ”

- Elizabeth Arden

“ Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ”

- George Eliot
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