Routine Quotes - Page 31

• It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Gone, Rotten

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

  W. H. Auden

  Ambition, Intelligent, Men

  "The Good Order" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2014.

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• So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

  Brian Eno

  Educational, Believe, Character

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• That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

  Don DeLillo

  Vacation, People, Relax

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Baby, Husband

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.46, Da Capo Press

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• Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

  Robert Greene

  Animal, Men, Overcoming

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.126, Profile Books

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• Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Sleep, Giving, Work Out

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• Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

  Mario Batali

  Eye, Land, Trying

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• Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Special, Crime, Capers

  FaceBook post by Carl Hiaasen from Jan 07, 2015

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• My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

  Lena Dunham

  Weight, Devotion, Mood

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• Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone. Giving yourself the kind of attention is so important - and is something that is definitely glossed over by to many women

  Kat Von D

  Morning, Makeup, Giving

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• My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

  Nas

  Loyalty, Hard Work, Character

  Song: You Wouldn't Understand, 2012

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• Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Blessing, Looks, Might

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• Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

  Anthony Doerr

  Country, Home, Vegetables

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.

  Steven Furtick

  Real, Ferrari, Looks

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• Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Thinking, Cooking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

  Rihanna

  Hate, Bored, Way

  "Rihanna In Vogue: ‘I Feel Sexy’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Kindness, Freedom

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Routine is the death to heroism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Death, Heroism

  "The Man Upstairs". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1914.

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• Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

  Jacques Barzun

  Fake People, Ends, Cultural Change

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.

  Joel Osteen

  Ungrateful, Miracle, Thankfulness

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• Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

  Julia Cameron

  Impact, Solitude, Looks

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.73, Penguin

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• Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

  Henri de Lubac

  Powerful, Change Is Good, Waste

  Henri de Lubac (1987). “Paradoxes of Faith”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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