Routine Quotes

623 quotes by 544 authors

I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I donâ€™t like things that are average,… — Susan Downey
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which. — Charles Francis Richter
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
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners,… — George Carlin
The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be… — Stephen King
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… — Twyla Tharp
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love… — Roger Ebert
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… — Pablo Casals
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. — Abraham Maslow
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A… — Ludwig von Mises
Most people can't handle a structureless life. — Douglas Coupland
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… — Michael Beckwith
The quiet people just do their work. — Joyce Carol Oates
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. — Raymond Queneau
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning… — Daniel Goleman
If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally. — Raphael Soyer
Out of routine comes inspiration. — Mark Kostabi
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too… — William Osler
All individuals are different and some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy. — Walt Disney

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