Top 100 Quotes About Routine
#1. Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.
Bishop T. D. Jakes
#2. Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
Glenn Reynolds
#3. It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.
Stephen King
#5. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
C.D. Darlington
#6. Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.
Haruki Murakami
#7. My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my 'Mad Men' routine. If I'm in the series of work, it's hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.
Jessica Pare
#8. I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms ... I can write anywhere.
Jo Nesbo
#9. I started growing my own organic vegetables ... and started a routine of generally going to bed at 9.30 to 10 o'clock every night and sleeping until 7 A.M. I take perfect care of my machine.
Suzanne Somers
#10. One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.
Jimmy Fallon
#11. I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.
Deepika Padukone
#12. I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It was like an excursion for me from my normal routine and the Indian movies I do and that helped.
A.R. Rahman
#13. The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#14. The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
Thomas Merton
#15. Already I've seen that when you're pulled away from your normal routine, it's as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.
Elizabeth Berg
#16. But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from routine.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#18. Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!
Paula White
#19. Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine
Sunday Adelaja
#20. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.
Joseph Fink
#21. I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you.
It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.
J.D. Robb
#22. I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.
Carnie Wilson
#23. The youth of America need routine, repetition toward excellence, a sound but not punishing discipline, and the opportunity to make mistakes without the feeling of failure.
George M. Gilbert
#24. There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.
Margaret Case Harriman
#25. I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to sense the ocean coming together for me.
Mark Occhilupo
#26. I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!
Liz Goldwyn
#27. I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
Joan Baez
#28. If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution.
Saul Bellow
#29. I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.
Linda Evangelista
#30. Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
Theodore Levitt
#31. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#32. Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.
Bertrand Russell
#33. We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world
Ronald Reagan
#34. You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.
Martha Stewart
#35. Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.
Wyndham Lewis
#36. Shall I carry you in the house, or drop the knight with a raging hard on routine for tonight, do you think?
Virginia Nelson
#37. I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
William S. Burroughs
#38. Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a
Lisa See
#39. Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.
Michael Beckwith
#40. He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle.
Robert Sheckley
#41. Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
Bill Burr
#42. All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
Andre Maurois
#43. Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas ... it might look real good but it will get you no where.
Steven Furtick
#44. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Honore De Balzac
#45. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
John Green
#46. 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.
Erich Fromm
#47. Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery.
Steve Maraboli
#48. 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.
Anthony Doerr
#49. Most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.
Larry Burkett
#50. I think anyone that's in the same building or the same place for a really long period of time, some parts of it become routine.
Scott Kelly
#51. Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. I think not having a routine is what keeps me centered. I only have a routine when I am working.
Renee Lawless
#53. Although not yet routine, many cancer centers have the technology to sequence some or all of a patient's cancer genome. This can provide massive amounts of valuable information about your cancer, including whether you have genetic mutations and other abnormalities for which new drugs are available.
Kathy Giusti
#54. There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.
Cress Williams
#55. The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
Michael Shannon
#56. The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
Joyce Carol Oates
#57. When one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.
Bruce Lee
#58. I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
#59. Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.
Chris Van Allsburg
#60. So having a routine is important. It gives you something to hang on to, something to differentiate the weekdays from the weekends. My day starts like this. At
Ruth Ware
#61. In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
Rowan Williams
#62. Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#63. 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
#64. We are all creatures of habit, and when we make any change in our daily or weekly routine, we feel it. But soon your workout will become not only a reliable part of your day but a "must" on your to-do list.
Bob Harper
#65. We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
Walter Pater
#66. I really believe in being health conscious and trying to eat in a way that makes you feel comfortable. I've been working out since I was 17 or 18 years old. It's just a way of life for me. If I don't work out, I feel weird. It's just about what your routine is.
Mehcad Brooks
#67. I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I'm in the gym once or in the gym twice. Then I've got a road course routine and an oval routine because they're different physically.
Charlie Kimball
#68. In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.
Kamala Harris
#69. Ray wondered how different his life would be if he was accompanied by music throughout his daily routine. Walking to the pub would be more dramatic with Wagner. Stacking shelves would be quicker with Metallica.
Phil Church
#70. In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.
Shannon Miller
#71. All persons, places, and events in this book are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.
Kurt Vonnegut
#72. My daily routine is to make every day the best day.
David Wolfe
#73. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don't drink too much, don't smoke, and don't get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health.
Ben Goldacre
#74. I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?
Sarah Stillman
#75. 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.
Ward Cunningham
#76. I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
#77. War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
Ernie Pyle
#78. I don't have a set routine, but I try to squeeze in a workout every day, whether it's taking a hike, taking a Pilates class, or just putting in a workout DVD. Whatever it takes!
Jacob Vargas
#79. Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.
Wayde Goodall
#80. They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.
Freya North
#81. Our God isn't shallow. Our God doesn't call us to shallow, and He knows that sometimes with a phone call, a ran stoplight, a routine blood test, or a sonogram, we can be thrown into the deep end. He is there in the deep end with us.
Jennifer L. Lane
#82. Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
Ralph Keyes
#83. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Paulo Coelho
#84. 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
#85. That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
Sebastian Faulks
#86. The point is to test different hypotheses to determine which craving is driving your routine. Are
Anonymous
#87. I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.
Christie Brinkley
#88. We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.
George Harrison
#89. My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.
Rebecca Gayheart
#90. Every person has his set routines when it comes to thinking and acting, and where there's a routine, there's a weak point.
Haruki Murakami
#91. I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
Shawn Johnson
#92. The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby
Priyavrat Thareja
#93. The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.
Isaac Asimov
#95. When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.
Henci Goer
#97. I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.
Kevin Thoman
#98. I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.
Larry McMurtry
#99. A happy and productive person is one who understands that his or her job is not the purpose of his or her life. Go on vacation, use up your sick days, ask for a temporary leave-of-absence - anything that allows you to recharge your batteries away from your typical routine. No leave, no life.
Del Suggs
#100. Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
Samina Baig
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