Routine Quotes - Page 29

• Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Believe, Sight, People

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• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  Walter Payton

  Senior, Running, Cutting

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• I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.

  Bailey Chase

  Workout, Crazy, I Am Pretty

  "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mother, Children, Teaching

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• A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Real, Men, Trying

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

  Jordan Peele

  Baby, Mean, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If one has a routine colonoscopy at the age of 50 and then colonoscopies thereafter as the physician recommends, you could largely prevent colon cancer, you could detect it in its very earliest stages and cure it.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Age, Physicians

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Children, Book, Reading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Routine kills creative thought.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Creative, Creative Thought

  Scarlett Thomas (2009). “PopCo”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

  Robin Williams

  Python, People, Shorthand

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

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• If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Perfect, Waiting

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• Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Trying, Done

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

  Sean Patrick Thomas

  Art, Perfect, Would Be

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

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• Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Enemy, One Thing

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Stormbreaker”, p.187, Penguin

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• And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Adventure, Trying

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• Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out

  Rita Zahara

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Pneumonia, Flu Vaccine, Vaccines

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• Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Opposites, Should

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Pain

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• It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Want, Stuff

  "American Splendor author Harvey Pekar dies aged 70" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2010.

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• My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Time, Everyday

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• What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Eye, Doors

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• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Doe, Actors

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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