#repeated

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#automatic #becomes #develops #enough #frequently

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #again #back #been #call

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#anything #believe #busy #childhood #doing

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#go #had #holiday #i #like

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#both #british #cleaning #comes #conservative

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. ↗

— Mark Foley

#books #country #i #library #offenders

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. ↗

— Moss Hart

#audience #clock #far #generally #hearing

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. ↗

— Edward Weston

#always #bach #discordant #fresh #fugue

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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