Quotes with routine

  • Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
  • For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
  • That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
  • The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
  • Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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  • Mike Murdock The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
    Mike Murdock
    American singer-songwriter and televangelist (1946 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill
    The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Raymond Chandler Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bruce Springsteen For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Burt Rutan In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth 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
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bryan Burrough Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Abba Eban Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Ben Nicholas Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bethany Mota My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray a little bit on my neck and three spritzes in front of me and then I shimmy through them.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • William Golding Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Bill Hybels One prayer routine that is balanced and easy to remember is found in the word ACTS, an acrostic whose four letters stand for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Carson People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Arthur Helps Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buddy Rich So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Don DeLillo That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
    White Noise (2011) 276
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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