Routine Quotes - Page 15

• In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

  Aravind Adiga

  Fun, Office, Schedules

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• 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

  Frustrated, Example, Three

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.

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• I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Believe, Comedy

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• I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

  Mario Andretti

  Lying, Sleep, Race

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• Ex-girlfriends will find themselves in my new routine. Sometimes they like that, and sometimes they definitely do not. But comedians should come with a giant warning or disclaimer: IF YOU DATE ME, IT WILL BE IN MY ACT.

  Dane Cook

  Girlfriend, Comedian, Giants

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• You have to have a strong sense of humor to date me, and also know that you're probably going to be a part of the routine quite a bit.

  Dane Cook

  Strong, Sense Of Humor, Bits

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• In the future I would like to try other forms of racing, testing Formula cars or single seaters would be good, but again it is finding the time as I am incredibly busy. I don't think I have the time to try any other new sports. I have already cut skiing out of my routine in order to manage the racing and riding relationship. By the looks of things I am going to be busy for quite a few years.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, House, Mind

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• To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.

  Christoph Waltz

  Moving, Safety Zone, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Hate, Effort, Challenges

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• 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

  Christian, Team, New Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.

  Kathleen Norris

  Love, Running, Struggle

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.62, Paulist Press

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• On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.

  John McPhee

  Keys, Long, Water

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• Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

  Ralph Keyes

  Inspiration, Writing, Serious

  Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication”, p.49, Macmillan

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• One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Age, Generations

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.44, Crown

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• Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Mean, Perspective

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• One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

  Richard Burton

  Travel, Home, Journey

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• I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Email, Sometimes

  Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.

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• I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Commitment, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

  Mike Lee

  Freedom, Talking, Data

  "Everything you need to know about the Patriot Act debate". edition.cnn.com. May 23, 2015.

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• You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.

  Charles E. Bohlen

  Years, Routine Work, Twenties

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• As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Angel, Names, Matter

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Philosophy, Littles, Derivatives

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• I don't know if there's a proper way to define toughness in a runner, but I do know that there comes a sudden moment when the mindset shifts. The impossible becomes doable, or at least attemptable. The long run goes from two miles to four to ten to fifteen, until it becomes routine at some point deep in an intense training cycle to knock off a couple hours without giving it a thought.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Couple, Two

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• Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

  Louis Pasteur

  Practice, Spirit, Habit

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