“There are some youngsters who need a lot of [repetition] for the development process, but Darren doesn't need those extra carries.”
Bill Snyder
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
D.H. Lawrence
“These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.”
Claude M. Bristol
“You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.”
W. Clement Stone
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.”
David Mamet
“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
