Routine Quotes - Page 27

• At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

  Piers Anthony

  Couple, Journey, Views

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

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• Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

  Juan Williams

  Party, Office, Political

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• I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

  John Green

  Circles, Drawing, Boredom

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

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• Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

  Robbie Amell

  Would Be, Research, States

  "The Flash Actor Robbie Amell: The Importance of Persistence and Support". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Order, Doe

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• My standup has always been a direct reflection of my life. When I was single, I talked about single stuff. I talked about dating. When I got married there were only a handful of stories I could move over to where I wasn't going to be disrespectful to my wife. So I developed a new routine.

  Henry Cho

  Moving, Reflection, Wife

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• For the most part I've been focusing on my knees, trying to keep those as good as possible. I'm 100% now, you know with rehab and rest and I feel great. As far as training and the routine I get up and bike for awhile, and go in and have a great leg day, and get a full day in at the gym and try to improve.

  Brandon Spikes

  Training, Trying, Legs

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Simple, Use, Decay

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• The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

  William Feather

  Life, Business, Eye

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• From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Knowing, Target

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• This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Challenges, Break Out

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.47, Loyola Press

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• Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

  William H. Prescott

  Men, Agency, Law

  William H. Prescott (2005). “The Conquests of Mexico And Peru”, p.819, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Moon, Technology, Men

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• I've watched all (of Webb's) dunks on tape. I talked to him about what his preparations were going into the dunk contest. He just said he practiced a couple of days before. That's what I did. I practiced for two weeks, I know my routine, and I'm going to go in there, and I'm not going to shy away from it.

  Nate Robinson

  Couple, Two, Preparation

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• Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Hands, Knowing, Everyday

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• It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities.

  Toni Morrison

  Falling In Love, Hate, Knowing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

  Jaime Murray

  Yoga, Cutting, Exercise

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

  George Will

  Eye, Airports, Imagination

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

  William Barclay

  Life, Faith, Feelings

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• Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Gratitude, Jobs, Pain

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• Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

  Ben Nicholas

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• I was anxious to get started, There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine
  of playing games. It was just nice to be on a team, not competing against these guys in camp [but] trying to
  work together to win.

  Sidney Crosby

  Nice, Team, Winning

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• In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

  Geoff Hoon

  Matter, Building, Barbaric

  "Up to 10,000 buried in Kosovo's mass graves, British say". www.cnn.com. June 17, 1999.

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• There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.

  Guillermo del Toro

  War, Hero, Winning

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