The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition. — Roy Andries De Groot Copy Share Image
I always talk about shooting being broken down into three things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By the fifth 'I'm sorry' for the same cause, it's better to just say, I meant to do it.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from… — Tom McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Partial repetitions is another technique that I used -- sparingly. I was always a fan of doing full repetitions on every set.… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My way of thinking is that if you plan everything your life will be boring and who wants a boring life. Live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work. — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
In this position I play, it's just repetition and continuing to throw the routes and getting that velocity back that you would… — Donovan McNabb Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a bad mistake, except for that which is repeated. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed. — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
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