I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.
What is the obsession with not repeating clothes or making appearances that have been similar to the one's we've made in the past? Why is the fashion police so intense? What do they expect from us? What kind of pressure is this?
I intend that I am learning from my experiences so that I am only repeating the ones that bring me happiness.
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.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.
We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.
I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.
It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.
When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.
I will keep repeating, that if you find me guilty of corruption then take the strictest action against me.
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".
About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.
We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.
This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating.
Guys are known to be lazy shoppers, but for me, it is extremely important to look good. I am very finicky because I hate repeating clothes.
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?
Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.
That's why I don't listen to other people on the radio, never have, 'cause I don't want to inadvertently, even unaware, end up repeating something somebody else has already said.
There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.
My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.
In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.
I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.
The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.
I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.
We've had different genres within our genre for so long that people just fail to realize that it's going to keep repeating and we're watching the cycle repeat again.
A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.
Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.
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.
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.
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