Repetitions Quotes
42 quotes by 36 authors
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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
— James Madison
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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution…
— James Madison
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When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.
— Jane Fonda
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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
— Mark Twain
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Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such…
— Margaret Sanger
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Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From…
— Arthur Lydiard
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Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings…
— Melanie Klein
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The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound…
— Clement Greenberg
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Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,…
— Judith Butler
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
— Harold Rosenberg
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Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read.…
— Lilian Katz
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
— Aldous Huxley
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Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.
— Bruce Lee
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We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface…
— Philippa Perry
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Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and…
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a…
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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