Repeating Patterns Quotes

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

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

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. It's just common sense that I learned the hard way - I keep touching the fire. I'll touch it even though you told me it's hot, even though it's burned me before.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.