Routine Quotes - Page 14

• Routine is worry's sly assassin.

  Leif Enger

  Worry, Assassins, Sly

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

  Tom Van Vleck

  Writing, Recovery, Errors

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• Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Hard Work, Sweat

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• In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

  Ted Sizer

  School, Generations, Genius

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• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  Danilo Kis

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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• Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  Lance Secretan

  Attitude, Heart, Future Leaders

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• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Records

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, Healthy

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• Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

  Alexey Suetin

  Mistake, Play, Development

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• My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy the simple things. She loves to jump on the couch with her favorite toys and roll around while I clap my hands.

  Kristin Davis

  Simple, Hands, Pet

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• We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

  Daniel Goldin

  Future, Moon, Space

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Church, Saint

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

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• [I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented.

  William Kristol

  Military, Home, Priorities

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• Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Two, People

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• Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

  Joan D. Chittister

  People, Asking, World

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

  Chris Ofili

  Art, People, Matter

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• A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, White, Creative

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• Look for magic in the daily routine

  Lou Barlow

  Magic, Looks, Daily Routines

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• A pre-putt routine helps you stay nice and relaxed so you can make the best stroke possible.

  Tiger Woods

  Nice, Helping, Strokes

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

  Robbie Fowler

  Special, Would Be, Newspapers

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

  Larry Wall

  Would Be, Definitions, Attributes

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• One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Imagination, Literature

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• The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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