Routine Quotes - Page 9

• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

  Patrick Dempsey

  New York, Men, Play

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

  Sterling Hayden

  Mean, Sea, Play

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

  Lucian Freud

  Dog, Love Is, Hatred

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• I have a timetable, but no routine.

  Lucian Freud

  Timetables

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• Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

  Chuck Close

  Crazy, Knowing, Giving

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• A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

  May Sarton

  Would Be, Body, Impossible

  May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

  Jai Courtney

  Exercise, Attention, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

  Mark-Anthony Turnage

  Night, Important, Bed

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Mark-Anthony Turnage, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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• Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Focus, Rift

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.305, Harper Collins

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• My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Writing, Years, Everyday

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• There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

  Michael Shannon

  Secret, Empires, Boardwalk Empire

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• There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  Antonin Scalia

  Practice, Justice, Demand

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• One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.

  Kathy Acker

  Real, Believe, Tears

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• I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Family, Dream

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• Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

  Theodore Levitt

  Order, Organization, Innovation

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• How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

  Bill Drayton

  Leadership, Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities

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• There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

  David Foster Wallace

  Frustration, Boredom, Adults

  "Ten Best Commencement Speeches: See A List, Take The Poll" by Katharine Zaleski, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Tired, People, Political

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• The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

  George Santayana

  Mistake, Self, Cynical

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• Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

  Merrill Brockway

  Dance, Passion, Responsibility

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• Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.

  John A. Van de Walle

  Teaching, Math, Exercise

  John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group

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• I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

  Eva Green

  Maintenance, Lows

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• Day in and day out we do the same thing,
  Tryina find the joy in our repetition.
  Always complainin' about the routine and the mundane.
  But let me stop to remind y'all bout one thing:
  Come hell or high water you can count on the sun
  Always shinin' in its untamed glory.

  Phonte

  Rap, Water, Hip Hop

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• To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Believe, Patriotic, Political

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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