- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repetition Quotes
The same beat, over and over, until it becomes you.
These lines examine repetition from several angles: a craving for the familiar, the science of habit-building, and a pointed claim that certain politics merely repeats itself instead of producing genuine progress. See related ideas under Change quotes.
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- Craves
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
- Nov 07, 2020
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
- Finely
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- Nov 07, 2020
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
- Excess
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020