Circumstances create some temporary conditions in one's life, but one's repeated interpretations of them always finalize whether they remain temporary or become permanent in one's life.
There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it.
Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.
Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.
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.
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
We made mistakes learnt from them not to repeat it again. But some mistakes are made repeatedly but we feel helpless after doing it...
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'
When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
