Top 543 Repetition Quotes & Sayings

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

Repetition doesn't really exist

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

Repetition is the mother of skill.

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.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.

Repetition creates the master.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

How much of you is repetition?

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

All poetry comes from repetition.

For me, repetition is death.

Repetition is the death of art.

Repetition is beautiful.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

Repetition is the mother of education.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

Filming is repetition and many takes

Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

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.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

Repetition is a form of change

Repetition makes reputation.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

Repetition is the father of learning.

Repetition makes perfect.

Repetition is the death of magic.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

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.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

There has to be an element of repetition for TV... You want people to be addicted to your show, and the way to get people addicted is not to give it to them once, but to give it to them a few times, until they get on board with it. It's just about finding that balance of the necessary repetition and making the things that are repetitive absolutely necessary while keeping everything else fresh.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.