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• Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

  Joey Votto

  Baseball, Jobs, Home

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Mind, Way

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• The quiet people just do their work.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Quiet People, People, Quiet

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• I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Light

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Business, Risk

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• Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

  Ovid

  Trouble, Habitual

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

  Raphael Soyer

  One Day, Paint, Wells

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• To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

  Irving Kaufman

  History, Perspective, Mind

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• The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

  Aldrich Ames

  Self, People, Use

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• Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

  William Greider

  Gathering, News, Leaks

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

  Arthur Helps

  Order, Organization, Paralysis

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.33, [s.n.]

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• Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Negativity, Despair, Four

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Sports, Hero, Past

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.

  Sara Zarr

  Oil, Anxiety, Looks

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• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Drinking, Beer

  The Long Goodbye ch. 4 (1953)

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Missing, Suffering

  Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Thankfulness

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• If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

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• To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Vision, Ordinary

  "Stephen Shore's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

  John Stuart Mill

  Disease, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

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• Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.

  Michael Beckwith

  Fall, Causes, Moments

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Years, Play

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