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

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

Don’t say what you don’t want repeated.

Don’t be too worried for having too many things unaccomplished. Make a deal; accomplish only one thing; one special thing today. Repeat this tomorrow. It will amaze you how much you’ll get done in a...

[…]to be real–to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what’s fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn’t that a fairly accurate description of lust?

There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

Economist should be spelled echonomist, because they all repeat each other.

He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Repetition opens doors, you know?

To sum it all up, it’s about repetition.

…I live with regrets – the bittersweet loss of innocence – the red track of the moon upon the lake – the inability to return and do it again…

Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour,...

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before … without them noticing.

Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.

But this was suddenly interrupted, William Bankes remembered (and this must refer to some actual incident), by a hen, straddling her wings out in protection of a covey of little chicks, upon which Ramsay, stopping,...

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, “the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part...

… the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation of citations) that it gains a subversive power rather than remain...

It is not only the weary Homo faber, who objectifies the world in the ‘doing’ mode, who must vacate his place on the logical stage; the time has also come for Homo religiosus, who turns...

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we’ll be doomed to repeat it.

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

… a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

We’re taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.(Young India 1924-1926)

Repetition is the mother of perfection.

I get up at 12:12, because if I have to do it every day, the number may as well be repetitive. And I love you all the time. That time is 3:21 PM.

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it...

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.

Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.

Change for the better… Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!

Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can’t even correct yours.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.