Routine Quotes

• The less routine the more life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Life, Life Changing, Life Is Good

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• 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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• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  Jackie Kennedy

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• The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

  Mike Murdock

  Motivational, Secret, Time Management

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Dec 29, 2016

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• Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Boots, Retreat

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

  Pico Iyer

  Wall, Moving, Order

  "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

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• After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people's words.

  Twyla Tharp

  Morning, Jobs, Phones

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

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• Out of routine comes inspiration.

  Mark Kostabi

  Inspiration

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• Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Top Management, Service Culture

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• Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Inspiration, Ideas, Firsts

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• As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spiritual, Long, Soul

  "The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It". Book by Dennis Merritt Jones, p. 70, June 9, 2011.

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  You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

  Mike Murdock

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Seeds Of Wisdom On Habits”, p.5, Wisdom International Inc

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• Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

  William Osler

  May, Humdrum

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.343, Duke University Press

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• Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Long

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• Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Disguise, Handle

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• Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

  James Galway

  Running, Blessing, Boredom

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• I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

  James Nares

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• Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Physics, Prophecy, Accurate

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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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• You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Inspirational Sports, Morning

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Disease, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

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• Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

  Raymond Queneau

  Dream, Work, Men

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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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