Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

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.

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.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

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.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

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.

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

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

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.

My greatest fear: repetition.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

So, 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.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

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.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

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.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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.

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

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

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

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.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.