Repetition Quotes - Page 3

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

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

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

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

Repetition is the death of magic.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

All poetry comes from repetition.

Repetition creates the master.

I loved repetition. Every time I turned on a light I knew what would happen. When I flipped the switch, the light went on. It gave me a wonderful feeling of security because it was exactly the same each time.

Repetition is the death of art.

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

Repetition is a form of change

It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!

Filming is repetition and many takes

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.