Repetitive Behavior Quotes

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

I would sing 'Visions of Love' over and over for a year straight.

I don't just sit around and play 'Africa' in my house.

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw it away. I wait until I've got the right way of getting a thing done, which means my songwriting proceeds at a very slow pace. But it's the only way I can really work.

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.

When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.

What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn't actually mean there's any virtue to doing it that way at all.

I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading the same page. My guess is, I would've read, like the first page of Nicholas Nickleby over and over again.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.