126 Quotes About Repetition

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

At some point in youth an old person will tell you a harsh truth you will not believe, in middle age you will realize its true. In old age you will tell a young person the same harsh truth but they will not believe it. Because history repeats itself.

The cost of forgetting history is reliving it.

The next problem is often the last problem in redress.

Truth is unoriginal.

Our lifestyle, our life, the way we think and do things, really is a practice; a daily practice.

There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season.” - John Wooden

Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

Freud had a word for such reenactments: ‘The compulsion to repeat.