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• For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.

  Joel Osteen

  Ungrateful, Miracle, Thankfulness

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• Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

  Julia Cameron

  Impact, Solitude, Looks

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.73, Penguin

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• I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.

  Thomas Merton

  Kindness, Real, Thinking

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• Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Mistake, Hero

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• Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Eye, Glimpse, Timing

  Jonathan Tropper (2011). “Everything Changes”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Trying, Quality, Way

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• That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

  Don DeLillo

  Vacation, People, Relax

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

  Shawn Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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• For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.

  Robert Graves

  Cutting, Intuition, Answers

  "Poetic Craft and Principle: Lectures and Talks".

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• Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

  Jacques Barzun

  Fake People, Ends, Cultural Change

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

  Henri de Lubac

  Powerful, Change Is Good, Waste

  Henri de Lubac (1987). “Paradoxes of Faith”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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• Routine is the death to heroism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Death, Heroism

  "The Man Upstairs". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1914.

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• I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

  Rihanna

  Hate, Bored, Way

  "Rihanna In Vogue: ‘I Feel Sexy’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2011.

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• My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

  Nas

  Loyalty, Hard Work, Character

  Song: You Wouldn't Understand, 2012

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• Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Sleep, Giving, Work Out

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• Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

  Anthony Doerr

  Country, Home, Vegetables

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.

  Steven Furtick

  Real, Ferrari, Looks

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• Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone. Giving yourself the kind of attention is so important - and is something that is definitely glossed over by to many women

  Kat Von D

  Morning, Makeup, Giving

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• Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Special, Crime, Capers

  FaceBook post by Carl Hiaasen from Jan 07, 2015

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• I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Believe, Order

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

  Brian Eno

  Educational, Believe, Character

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• Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Blessing, Looks, Might

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• Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

  W. H. Auden

  Ambition, Intelligent, Men

  "The Good Order" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2014.

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