Routine Quotes - Page 18

• When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Exercise, Typewriters

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Anesthesia, Medical

  Dave Barry (2010). “I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood”, p.83, Penguin

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• In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

  Robert Reich

  Lying, Technology, World

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• Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

  John Fowles

  Men, Nightmare, Capitalist

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.

  Jim Carrey

  Teacher, Smart, Class

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• The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Silence, Labels

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.

  Carol Alt

  Fun, Tired, Holiday

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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• No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Discipline, Forever

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.53, e-artnow

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• Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

  C. D. Darlington

  Ministry, Complacency, Source

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• One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.

  Jessica Mitford

  Jobs, Thinking, Circles

  "Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford".

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• Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.

  Randy Alcorn

  Prayer, Struggle, Character

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• I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Variation, Believer

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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Mistake, Climbing, Routine Life

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Country, Animal, Men

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• Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

  Sarah Vowell

  Home, Responsibility, Gun

  "Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2000.

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• But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Shoes, Accomplishment

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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Rewards, Matter

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Beautiful, Looks, Language

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• I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance.

  Thomas Beddoes

  Death, Character, Science

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• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

  James R Newman

  Math, Discovery, Achievement

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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• Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.

  Joseph Pilates

  Exercise, Grace, Balance

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Childhood, Grace

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• Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

  Doug Ferguson

  Sports, Mean, Golf

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• Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

  Janet Yellen

  Capitalist Economy, Employment, Absence

  "Why Janet Yellen Should Be Fed Chair (In 4 Quotes)" By Mark Gongloff, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

  William Golding

  Jobs, Writing, Bird

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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