The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
I learned at an early age how to traverse the white world, the white-dominant world. I learned, and I was successful at it. I learned the nuances - I learned how to act, how to be - but I always was conscious and aware of my blackness.
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.
Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.
It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb.
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.
There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.