Routine Quotes - Page 19

• But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I need to play well at tournaments.

  Kim Clijsters

  Play, Trying, Needs

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• 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.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Make You Think, Doe

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• The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Decision, Justified, Century

  "The Age of Extremes". Book by Eric Hobsbawm, p. 414, 2004.

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• By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Morning, Eye

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• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Rejection, Missing

  Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

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• But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

  Dave Eggers

  Inspiration, Animal, Frustration

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Prayer, Catholic

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• The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Discipline, World, Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2009). “Fasting Study Guide”, p.25, Charisma Media

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• Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

  George Eliot

  Silly, Men, Unhappy

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• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

  Max Weber

  Men, Hands, Everyday Routine

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge

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• My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

  Vera Wang

  Fire, Normal

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• The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

  Rebecca West

  Earth

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• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dream, Eye, Our World

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.115, New World Library

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• I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  Vir Das

  Bored, Comedian, Gone

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• Routine is worry's sly assassin.

  Leif Enger

  Worry, Assassins, Sly

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Trying, Like You

  "My List: Donatella Versace in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Hard Work, Sweat

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• In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

  Ted Sizer

  School, Generations, Genius

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• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  Danilo Kis

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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• 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

  Discipline, Needs, Novelty

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.126, SpiralPress

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• Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

  Simon Van Booy

  Comfort, Desperate, Agree

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.109, Oneworld Publications

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• If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

  Dai Vernon

  Men, Magic, Would Be

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• If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. 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. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Book, Writing

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• I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every time you perform Mix Tape you will feel like you're presenting someone with a very special gift. I've never come across a routine so natural and so strong. Use this and you will be the wonder worker they talk about long after you have left.

  Luke Jermay

  Strong, Long, Magic

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