Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion Designer
"I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition."
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Repetition
84 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"Repetition is beautiful."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"Repetition is the father of learning."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation."
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"Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life."
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"We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again."
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"Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition."
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"Repetition is a revolutionary virtue."
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"Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty."
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"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"
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"Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces."
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"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."
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"We learn by observation, imitation and repetition."
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"Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage"
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"The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore."
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"a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth."
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"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way."
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"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"
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"The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition"
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"Repetition is the mother of education."
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"The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence."
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"Repetition is the death of art."
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"Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot."
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