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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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When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

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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.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

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The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

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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.

Quotes by Terry Riley

Always Quotes

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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.

Quotes by Terry Riley

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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.

Quotes by Summer Sanders

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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...

Quotes by Steven Millhauser

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Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

Quotes by Steven Millhauser

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The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

Quotes by Sophie Okonedo

Being Quotes

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Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

If a repeated action can turn into an automatic reflex, it's worth asking which routines actually serve you. Continue with Being or Body for connected themes.