Routine Quotes

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

I'm not a fan of routine.

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

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.

With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

My routine is get up, have a cup of coffee, make a shake, have a workout, go walk the dog.

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

My daily routine is to make every day the best day.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

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.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Out of routine comes inspiration.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

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.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

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.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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.