A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lee

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
John Sexton

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
Joe Henderson

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.
Jonathan Kellerman

Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.
Henry Fonda

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
Jewel

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
Simon Le Bon

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.
JoBeth Williams

If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them.
Benjamin Hawkins

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Robert Musil

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.
Ron Fairly

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
Roy Barnes

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.
Gunther Schuller

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
Robert Nozick

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
Julius Wellhausen