Quotes of Repeating - somelinesforyou

“ A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ”

- Willa Cather

“ The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Life can be real tough… you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over. ”

- Marie Osmond

“ Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating. ”

- Richard Neville

“ Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ”

- Charles J. Givens

“ A very great memory often forgetteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use. ”

- George Savile

“ A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. ”

- George W. Bush

“ Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. ”

- Elie Wiesel

“ Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off. ”

- Karl Marx

“ A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ”

- Laurel Lee

“ Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing… you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. ”

- David Gilmour

“ We make our habits and our habits make us. Practicing bad habits over a long period of time can ingrain attitudes, beliefs and feelings so firmly that escape seems impossible. In such cases, you must exhibit change - do it, perform its outward manifestations - before you can learn to believe in it… ”

- Denis Waitley

“ There is nothing that is too obvious of an absurdity to be firmly planted in the human head as long as you begin to instill before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great seriousness. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. ”

- Jean Piaget
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