#repeating

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh. ↗

— Simon Le Bon

#age #especially #i #i think #joke

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. ↗

— William Gass

#builds #combining #converse #does #elementary

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. ↗

— David Gilmour

#comes #find #first #go #just

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#creating #doing #done #education #generations

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#basis #building #important #important way #in the past

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

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. ↗

— Will Durant

#commanding-nature #eternal-recurrence #history #history-repeating-itself #science

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#child #grade #last #learn #needs

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#best #citizen #dangerous #days #fathers