The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear… — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Day in and day out we do the same thing, Tryina find the joy in our repetition. Always complainin' about the routine… — Phonte Copy Share Image
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a story and now you're adding more story… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a… — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a… — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.” — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before … without them noticing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
