Routine famous quotes
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Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
-- A.J. Cronin -
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
-- Abraham Maslow -
To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
-- Al Alvarez -
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.
-- Alexey Suetin -
As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
-- Angela Kinsey -
So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
-- Ann Brashares -
FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
-- Annie Jump Cannon -
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.
-- Archie Kalokerinos -
I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.
-- Arjun Rampal -
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
-- Arthur Helps -
Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.
-- Austin Kleon -
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!
-- Bent Larsen -
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
-- Bill Burr -
Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
-- Bobbi Brown -
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
-- Boris Pasternak -
It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
-- Bruce Lee -
I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.
-- Buddy Rich -
Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
-- C. D. Darlington -
Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.
-- Carl Sagan -
I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.
-- Carnie Wilson -
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.
-- Charles Ferguson -
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.
-- Charles Francis Richter -
I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine, and use products that create a sun-kissed glow that can transition from day to night.
-- Charlotte Ronson -
In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.
-- Chris Ofili -
Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'
-- Cynthia Nixon -
Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
-- Daniel Goleman -
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
-- Dave Barry -
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
-- David Ogilvy -
I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.
-- David Wright -
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.
-- Delbert L. Stapley -
I don't like routine and I don't like rules.
-- Dominique McElligott -
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
-- Donatella Versace -
I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
-- Edie Sedgwick -
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick -
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
-- Ella Maillart -
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
-- Eric Linklater -
I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.
-- Eva Green -
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
-- Felix Dennis -
In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.
-- Geoff Hoon -
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation
-- Gregory Crewdson -
How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.
-- Gunter Grass -
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
-- Hanna Rosin -
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
-- Harper Lee -
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.
-- Haruki Murakami -
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.
-- Harvey Pekar -
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.
-- Heather McHugh -
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.
-- Henci Goer -
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
-- Henri de Lubac -
Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers
-- Henry Vaughan -
Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
-- J. Cole -
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.
-- Jackie Chan -
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
-- Jacques Barzun -
I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.
-- Jai Courtney -
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
-- James Cash Penney -
Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.
-- Jamie Moyer -
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,
-- Janet Yellen -
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming†happens during his daily routine.
-- Joe Louis -
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.
-- John Elder Robison -
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
-- John Philip Sousa -
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
-- John Steinbeck -
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
-- John Stuart Mill -
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.
-- Jonathan Tropper -
I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable.
-- Jordana Brewster -
The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.
-- Julianna Margulies -
I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
-- Kate Beckinsale -
I am a great believer in variations on the routine.
-- Kaye Gibbons -
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
-- Kenneth Anger -
But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I need to play well at tournaments,
-- Kim Clijsters -
One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!
-- Lance Burton -
Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
-- Lance Secretan -
Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
-- Larry Hagman -
The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.
-- Learned Hand -
Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.
-- Lee Byung-hun -
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
-- Lena Dunham -
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
-- Lisette Model
