Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Top Authors: Obama, Lincoln, Churchill
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Definition of Repetition
Repetition

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

Recital from memory; rehearsal.

The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.

Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

Related Definitions:
Act, Again, An, Angle, Audience, By, Different, Doing, For, From, Impression, In, Instrument, Iteration, Making, Measurement, Memory, Note, Of, On, Or, Part, Piece, Playing, Purpose, Recital, Rehearsal, Reiteration, Repeating, Same, Saying, Second, Sense, Singing, Successive, The, Time, With, Word


Repetition Quotations

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

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
David Herbert Lawrence

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Repetition Translations

repetition in Danish is gentagelse
repetition in Dutch is herhaling, repetitie
repetition in Italian is replica
repetition in Latin is repetitio
repetition in Swedish is upprepning, repetition

Your Favorite Authors
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Andy Warhol
Aristotle
Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin
Bob Dylan
Bob Hope
Buddha
C. S. Lewis
Dalai Lama
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Washington
Henry David Thoreau
John F. Kennedy
Leo Tolstoy
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mike Myers
Mohandas Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Muhammad Ali
Nelson Mandela
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Vince Lombardi
Warren Buffett
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill

Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com