Quotes about Repetition
And there hath not been any one more effectual means of bringing unholiness, with an ungodly course of conversation, into the Christian world, than this one of teaching men to satisfy themselves in this duty by their saying, reading, or repetition of the words of other men, which, it may be, they understand not, and certainly are not in a due manner affected withal; for it is this duty whereby our whole course is principally influenced.
- John Owen
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
- CS Lewis
When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, "Nobody will forget this speech." George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit.
- Michael Wolff
He came out of his first long meeting with Trump thinking it had been a disconcertingly weird experience. Trump talked nonstop and constantly repeated himself.
- Michael Wolff
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And ones that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
- Muhammad Ali
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
- Paulo Coelho
When this was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they began to prophesy as well. So Saul tried again and sent messengers a third time, and even they began to prophesy.
- 1 Samuel 19:21
Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
- Nehemiah 6:4
Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
- Job 33:29
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- Proverbs 26:11