126 Quotes About Repetition

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

It is all odd at first, and then it becomes normal—not becauseit is normal, but because repetition uns the peculiar.

Compulsive repetitions are the death of fantasies.

Pretend that you believe, even to yourself. Do everything as if you are fearless. Repeat it to yourself so much, that if faith doesn’t come naturally, it comes as a practiced habit.

Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before … without them noticing.

Life. Too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

Being able to be repeated controllablyis one key element in risk management.