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• With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

  Marshall Sylver

  Reinforcement, Habit, Constant

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• Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

  Mason Cooley

  Cheer, Upset, Three

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• In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

  Philip K. Dick

  Philosophy, Law, Gunpowder

  "To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962". Book by Gregg Rickman, 1989.

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• Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Ideas

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• Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Meditation

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• The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

  Henry David Thoreau

  News, Genius, Journalism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Loving Yourself, Creative

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• I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more - for lack of a better word - risky.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

  Jack Nicholson

  Taken, Intelligent, Hands

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• Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Exercise, Ears

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Ramanama”

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• That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.

  Amy Sedaris

  Laughing, Done, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Self, Musical

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

  Kenneth Clark

  Order, Perfection, Dancer

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• Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

  Ernst Haas

  Inspiration, Inspired, Direct

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• My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Mother, Stories, Oral Tradition

  "'Headless Woman' Director Lucrecia Martel: My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2009.

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• First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Rivers, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Comfort, Patterns, Firsts

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• One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

  Layne Redmond

  Powerful, Play, People

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• To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Fall, Writing

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• People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  People, Feds, Fed Up

  "Q&A: Jean Paul Gaultier". Interview with Eric Wilson, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. October 26, 2007.

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• The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Untruthfulness, Advertising

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• On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Numbers, Safe, Difficulty

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Needs, Amplification

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Past, Investing, Movement

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