Routine Quotes - Page 7

• The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

  Harry Gordon Johnson

  Girl, Angel, College

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• When you're onstage, it's important to try and feel some type of therapy in getting the material out, because then you don't leave the stage so tired. If you're onstage and you're doing the same routine over and over, then it gets monotonous. You want to be able to try to get to the truth constantly, and I think the more you do that, the easier it is.

  Pauly Shore

  Tired, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

  Tom Odell

  Hate, Fighting, Ideas

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• In Dallas, life is a little slower. It's a little more day-to-day routine. It's just a simpler life. At the end of the day, I love Texas girls, and I kind of relate to them.

  Josh Henderson

  Girl, Texas, The End Of The Day

  "Hot Topic: Josh Henderson" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. June 13, 2012.

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• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  Edie Falco

  Friday, Monday, Years

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• when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.

  Bruce Lee

  Struggle, Responding, Response

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.186, Tuttle Publishing

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• The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.

  Al Lopez

  Play, Giving, Littles

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• Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Attention, Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

  Mason Cooley

  Old Things, Champagne, Same Old Thing

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• I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Morning, Moving, Fall

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

  Marcia Cross

  Pumps, Diapers, Tiny

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• For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.386, Penguin

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• The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

  Mason Cooley

  Magic, Wish, Granted

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• The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Ordinary, Misery

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• Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Boredom, Usual

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• Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Comfort, Repetition

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• My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

  Mason Cooley

  Exercise, Lust, Relaxation

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• Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Couple, Women

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• An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Hands, Worry

  Herbert Read (2015). “The Politics of the Unpolitical”, p.145, Routledge

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• Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Jobs, Beer, Men

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

  Mason Cooley

  Fantasy, Daily Life, Supplements

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• Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Soul, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1391, Delphi Classics

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• Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

  Jamie Moyer

  Physical Therapy, Offseason, Therapy

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• One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

  Lance Burton

  Lines, Want, Shows

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• I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

  Jamie McGuire

  Girl, Doors, Bullshit

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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