Routine Quotes - Page 11

• Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Artist, Two, Generosity

  7 Copy quote

• My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Morning, Wall

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Natural, Rhythm

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

  Edith Wharton

  Caprice

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Knowledge, Science, Measurement

  4 Copy quote

• Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  People, Virtue, Certain

  7 Copy quote

• Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

  Diane Ackerman

  Doors, Creative, Lucky

  4 Copy quote

• Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

  Anne Tyler

  Moving, Years, Names

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Gardening, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Writing, Research, Belief

  4 Copy quote

• Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Clouds, Sight

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As John Kerry sails toward the Democratic nomination, new questions are emerging about President Bush's service in the National Guard, like where he was for six months in 1972 and why he refused to take a routine physical. President Bush has vowed to get to the bottom of this right after Election Day.

  Craig Kilborn

  President, Six Months, Nominations

  4 Copy quote

• I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

  Mike Colter

  Focus, Meditation, Used

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

  Bob Glover

  Running, Imagination, Training

  Bob Glover, Jack Shepherd, Shelly-lynn Florence Glover (1996). “The Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Classic Fitness G for begng Intermediate Runners 2nd rev Edition”, p.51, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.

  Andre Reed

  Years, People, Work Out

  Source: www.nfl.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Identity, Want, Losing Yourself

  Source: bigthink.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a close eye on what he's doing, his preparation, his routine, how he goes about his bullpens and in between so I can incorporate that stuff into my game.

  Tyler Beede

  Eye, Games, Preparation

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jobs, Mean, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Diaries, Letters

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.

  Damian Kulash

  Eight, Air, People

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.

  Theo Rossi

  Running, Dog, New York

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

  Darren Hardy

  Powerful, Successful, Discipline

  28 Copy quote

• I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.

  Christopher Allsopp

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves. They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.

  Adriana Lima

  Keys, Age, Care

  "Adriana Lima's Brazilian Beauty Secrets". Interview with Hannah Morrill, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 12, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Routine Work, Creative, May

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source