#repetition

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. ↗

— William Safire

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The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. ↗

— Michael Schudson

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When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition. ↗

— Harry Shearer

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. ↗

— John Grierson

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I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course. ↗

— Joe Henderson

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