Routine Quotes

623 quotes by 544 authors

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine. — Edward Abbey
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… — Isaac Asimov
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'… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Malcolm Lowry
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… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
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… — Heidi Klum
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… — Kathy Acker
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,… — Hugh Hefner
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. — Theodore Levitt
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… — Bill Drayton
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… — David Foster Wallace
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
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… — George Santayana
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… — Merrill Brockway
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… — John A. Van de Walle
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… — Joao Magueijo
Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me… — Miranda Kerr
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… — Robert H. Jackson
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre

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