Routine Quotes - Page 24

• I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.

  Megyn Kelly

  Thinking, Enjoy, Paid

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• Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.

  Robert Pozen

  Heart, Exercise, Keys

  "Exercise Increases Productivity" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

  Robert Pozen

  Important, Trying, Energy

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• Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day.

  Allyson Felix

  Crazy, Exercise, Thinking

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• When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

  Mort Walker

  Hurt, War, Editors

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• I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

  James Fenton

  Morning, Reading, Writing

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• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Records

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Ruts, Christian Faith

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• Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

  Walter Lippmann

  Fall, Tired, Men

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

  William James

  Lonely, Fall, Emergencies

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

  Willa Cather

  Powerful, Past, Long

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Running, Heaven, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Simple, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Jokes

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• There is comfort in routine.

  John Steinbeck

  Comfort

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.144, Penguin

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• A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

  Annie Jump Cannon

  Science, Needs, Elements

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• People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Games, Play, People

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

  Priscilla Presley

  Song, Tired, Dark

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• A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, White, Creative

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Order, Each Day

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries”

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• In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, People, Matter

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• My life revolves around my child's routine.

  Shania Twain

  Children, My Children

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

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• When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which means: as fresh as possible, without dullness, repetition, and routine. As colorful as possible, giving delight to the eyes; food is a rainbow brought down to earth. As cheerful as possible, maximizing moments of happiness and pleasure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Eye, Rainbow

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