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Letter "R" » repetition
«It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
affirmations, conviction, repetition, repetitions
«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»
«I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
| Keywords:
caprices, disgusted, gestures, nausea, repetition, rigmarole, theatre
«Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last»
«It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
enlightenment, repetition, statement, usher, ushering, ushering in, ushers, usher in
«Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Hums, innumerable, repetition, The Variations, variation, variations, well known
«Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition»
«In this busy age of fear and anxiety, the remembrance of God and repetition of His name is the one means of liberation that is accessible to all.?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
accessible, remembrance, repetition, The Age of Anxiety
«Religion is nothing if it be not the vital act by which the entire mind seeks to save itself by clinging to the principle from which it draws its life. This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formula, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence -- it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
clinging, drawing power, draws, formula, personal relation, Personal relations, presence of mind, repetition, vital principle
«Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.»
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