Repetition is the mother of skill

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.

"Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25

Learning is rooted in repetition and convexity, meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once.

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

The repetition of the orphanage drama year after year, echoing the Nietzschean idea of eternal recurrence — that everything that has happened will happen again and again — seems to rob the little world of any real meaning. Why should the repetition of the fire inspector's lament make it sound so hollow?

For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.

المهاره الحقيقة، إنما هي في إدارة من هم اكثر منك ذكاء في بعض التخصصات الفنية، وفي البذل لهم بسخاء.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth — or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives — they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better — so they don’t go looking for it. Or, perhaps, they don’t want the trouble of better. Freud called this a “repetition compulsion.” He thought of it as an unconscious drive to repeat the horrors of the past — sometimes, perhaps, to formulate those horrors more precisely, sometimes to attempt more active mastery and sometimes, perhaps, because no alternatives beckon. People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It’s partly fate. It’s partly inability. It’s partly … unwillingness to learn? Refusal to learn? Motivated refusal to learn?

Men have passed on the knowledge of how to mix cement, lay brick, splice a line, navigate a ship, make steel, and dozens of other crafts, yet in politics, statecraft, and social relationships we continue to repeat old mistakes.