Routine Work Quotes

• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Travel

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 07, 2011

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creative, May, Etc

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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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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• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  Walter Pater

  Years, Desire, Needs

  Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.

  Charles E. Bohlen

  Years, Twenties, United States

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• In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

  Kamala Harris

  Order, Two, Work Out

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

  Richard Overy

  Goering, Argument, Endless

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