Repetition Effect Quotes

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

The more Ronald Reagan repeated a story, the more he believed it and the more he resisted information that undermined premises.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.