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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
- Breathing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
- Meditation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
- Decaying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repetition every day. That's something the great ones do is never get complacent.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020