Repetitive Quotes

• Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Kristen Wilson

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

  Paul Hawken

  Stories, Movement

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.13, Penguin

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

  Margaret Mahy

  Situation, Term, Humans

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• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

  Denis Waitley

  Change, Self, Fidgeting

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• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  Fay Weldon

  Practice, Mind, Affirmation

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, 2013.

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Mind, Phrases, Affirmation

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Song, Writing, Hammers

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• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Family, Patterns

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ideas

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.47, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

  Denis Waitley

  Criticism, Trying, Power Of Positive Thinking

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• Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.

  Scott Jurek

  Movement, Body, Demand

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.150, A&C Black

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• Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.110

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• Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Mean, Simple, Leaving

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Years, People, Car

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• Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Self Worth, Order

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• That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

  John Green

  People, Listening, Want

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feel Good, Tragedy, Boring

  Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.186, Pantheon

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• I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Space, Mind

  "Lou Reed: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Knowing, Balance, Patterns

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

  John Green

  Crush, Hurt, Two

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, War, Numbers

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