Routine Quotes

• The less routine the more life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Life, Life Changing, Life Is Good

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Travel

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 07, 2011

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• The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

  Mike Murdock

  Motivational, Secret, Time Management

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Dec 29, 2016

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• 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

  Wall, Boots, Retreat

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  Jackie Kennedy

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• After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people's words.

  Twyla Tharp

  Morning, Jobs, Phones

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.

  Ian Curtis

  Ambition, Tears, Different

  Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.77, Faber & Faber

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• Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Inspiration, Ideas, Firsts

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• Out of routine comes inspiration.

  Mark Kostabi

  Inspiration

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• 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

  Business, Top Management, Service Culture

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• Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is why most of us don't. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present.

  Jim Rohn

  Regret, Writing, Past

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• Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Routine Life, People

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

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spiritual, Long, Soul

  "The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It". Book by Dennis Merritt Jones, p. 70, June 9, 2011.

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• Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

  Pico Iyer

  Wall, Moving, Order

  "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

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  You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

  Mike Murdock

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Seeds Of Wisdom On Habits”, p.5, Wisdom International Inc

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• Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Long

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• Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

  William Osler

  May, Humdrum

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.343, Duke University Press

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• Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Disguise, Handle

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

  James Galway

  Running, Blessing, Boredom

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• 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

  Champion, Becoming, Rings

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• I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

  James Nares

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• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Apr 16, 2016

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• Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Physics, Prophecy, Accurate

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• You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Inspirational Sports, Morning

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• We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

  Donald M. Nelson

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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