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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.


Ornette Coleman


#anything #being #number #number three #numbers

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.


Peter Cushing


#asking #being #day #every #every day

I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.


Donna Dixon


#become #body #good #hard #how

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.


Earl Nightingale


#conscious mind #day #emotion #mind #nourish

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.


Chuck Palahniuk


#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

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

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.


Terry Riley


#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

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.


Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam


#vocabulary #death

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.


Vladimir Nabokov


#dreams #expectancy #hope #idleness #life

... 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






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