Repetition Quotes

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Deep, Happen, Once

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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill

Mind, May, Through

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Thought, Enough, Same

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale

Mind, Reality, Become

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone

Mind, Verbal, Affect

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.
W. H. Auden

Lazy, Bored, Unexpected

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Live, Die

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

History, Lesson, Teaches

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
Robert Plant

Lost, Singer, Gig

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet

Happiness, Great, Ruined

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda

Words, Control, Thoughts

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
Simon Wiesenthal

History, Through, Against

Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera

Happiness, Longing

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp

Freedom, Simple, Boredom

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.
Kate Millett

Change, Politics, Means

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
William Safire

Work, Great, Find

Constant repetition carries conviction.
Robert Collier

Conviction, Constant, Carries

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
Dick Wolf

Heart, Soul, House

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Society, Forward, Human

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell

History, Living, Wrong

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don DeLillo

Society, May, Act

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
Jacques Pepin

Great, Important, Through

You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away.
Curtis Stone

Away, Far, Sure

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Jim Garrison

Truth, Fire, Become

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
John Grierson

Truth, Heart, Lie

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.
Jon Landau

Rock, Old, Less

My greatest fear: repetition.
Max Frisch

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

Baseball, After, Instrument

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Fiona Shaw

Exciting, Open, Hit

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Norman Lear

Country, Violence, Constant

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