Routine Quotes - Page 26

• When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

  Michael Schumacher

  Successful, Trying, Turns

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

  Dorothea Brande

  Simple, Healthy, Occasional

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.43, Lulu.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

  Jim Highsmith

  Intelligent, Simple, Guides

  Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility”, p.53, Addison-Wesley

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

  Al Gore

  Sacrifice, Long, Perspective

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

  Juan Williams

  Party, Office, Political

  7 Copy quote

• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  Felix Dennis

  Artist, Entrepreneur, Businessman

  "Felix Dennis talks iPad poetry, Apple approvals and tablets for the elderly". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Daily Life, Share, Bizarre

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.29

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

  Peter Watts

  Running, Climbing, Dancer

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.302, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

  Piers Anthony

  Couple, Journey, Views

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.

  Michael Buckley

  Teacher, Fighting, Knights

  Buckley, Michael (2011). “The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two”, p.245, Abrams

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

  John Green

  Circles, Drawing, Boredom

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Race, Machines

  13 Copy quote

• You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crazy, Writing, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—

  Malcolm Lowry

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2015). “The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition”, p.306, University of Ottawa Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Meaningful, Husband, Father

  42 Copy quote

• I learned not to go in the sun early on in my career. A tan lasts for a week or two before it fades, and the sun is so damaging—it's not worth it. I put sunscreen on my kids every day before school and before they play outside. They know the routine.

  Heidi Klum

  Kids, School, Play

  5 Copy quote

• Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

  Joao Magueijo

  Work, Thinking, Office

  4 Copy quote

• Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

  William H. Prescott

  Men, Agency, Law

  William H. Prescott (2005). “The Conquests of Mexico And Peru”, p.819, Cosimo, Inc.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Knowing, Target

  7 Copy quote

• The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

  William Feather

  Life, Business, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

  William Barclay

  Life, Faith, Feelings

  16 Copy quote

• I lack routine with yoga, sleep, and food but do my best to keep consistency amongst the chaos.

  Kathryn Budig

  Yoga, Sleep, Consistency

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.

  Bailey Chase

  Workout, Crazy, I Am Pretty

  "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

  Jaime Murray

  Yoga, Cutting, Exercise

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source