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The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. (Quote by - Michael Schudson)

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. (Quote by - Jeff Vandermeer)

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

My greatest fear: repetition. (Quote by - Max Frisch)

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. (Quote by - Walter Lippman)

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. (Quote by - Nathaniel Cotton)

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. (Quote by - Bill Laswell)

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. (Quote by - Simon Wiesenthal)

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. (Quote by - Reggie Jackson)

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. (Quote by - John Grierson )

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. (Quote by - Jane Fonda)

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. (Quote by - Terry Riley)

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. (Quote by - Terry Riley)

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. (Quote by - Nile Rodgers)

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. (Quote by - Dawn Powell)

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. (Quote by - George Eliot)

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. (Quote by - Elizabeth Arden)

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. (Quote by - Archer J. P. Martin)

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